Lexic.us

Definition of Ill-being

1. Noun. Lack of prosperity or happiness or health.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-being

Literary usage of Ill-being

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"J* 1 thought and worry to the patient's mind, but an alteration of the feeling-tone in the direction of ill-being; and associated with a sense that it lies ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1902)
"thought and worry to the patient's mind, but an alteration of the feeling-tone in the direction of ill-being; and associated with a sense that it lies ..."

3. Proceedings by National Baptist Educational Convention (1872)
"Here you are committing your soul, on whose well-being or ill-being your all depends, to the keeping of this stranger; not knowing whether you are ..."

4. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker, Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay (1831)
"Our employment lies in observing the things about us, their qualities, their relations to our well or ill being, and from thence contriving the methods ..."

5. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"She doth all things with » sweet a grace, it seems ignorance will not suffer her to do ill, being her mind is to do well. She bestem hör year's wages at ..."

6. A True and Impartial History of the Conspiracy Against the Person and by Richard Blackmore (1723)
"Received yours very ill, being a-Bed ever A fince I faw you; I ask'd Captain Kelly, meeting him accidentally in the ..."

7. Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Ratna M. Sudarshan (2003)
"It is also of interest that the differences in psychological health of different socioeconomic groups pertain to differences in ill-being or mental distress ..."

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