wasting sickness

noun

wasting sickness

noun

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wasting disease

"No, it's wasting sickness," she added, as she turned round to the mother with a lofty air of conviction; "it's wasting sickness!"1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 300:

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