All 4 Uses
qualms
in
The Plague
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- Looking from his window at the town, outwardly quite unchanged, the doctor felt little more than a faint qualm for the future, a vague unease.†
Part 1 *qualm = feeling of uneasinesseditor's notes: Qualm is much more commonly used in the plural form, qualms.
- Under the circumstances Rieux had no qualms about testing Castel's serum on the boy.†
Part 4qualms = feelings of uneasiness
- I brought off everything I set my hand to, I moved at ease in the field of the intellect, I got on excellently with women, and if I had occasional qualms, they passed as lightly as they came.†
Part 4
- Next day these fancies would have passed and qualms of doubt returned.†
Part 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(qualms) feelings of uneasiness -- especially about whether it is right to do something
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely feeling qualms can reference a sudden feeling of nervousness. Even more rarely (and historically), a qualm referenced a mild state of nausea.