Both Uses
ailment
in
Jacob Have I Loved
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- At suppertime my mother came in to ask if I were ill, and being too slow-witted to invent an ailment, I got up and went down to the meal.†
Chpt 15 *ailment = illness
- The truth, of course, is that the ailment crosses denominational lines.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(ailment) an illness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)