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Look up: Qualm

  1. qualm
    feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness 
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  2. Qualm
    Qualm: 1. Sickness, disease, pestilence, or death. As in 'A thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [not dead of sickness]' (Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales) 2. A sudden sick feeling. As in 'A qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.' (Robert Louis Stevenson in 'Dr. Jekyll...
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  3. Qualm
    Qualm noun [ Anglo-Saxon cwealm death, slaughter, pestilence, akin to Old Saxon & Old High German qualm . See Quail to cower.] 1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [ Obsolete] « thousand slain and not of qualm<...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/4

  4. qualm
    1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. ' thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead]' (Chaucer) ... 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. ' Qualms of heartsick agony.' ... 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. 'For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy gar...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. Qualm
    • (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. • (n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. • (n.) Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. • (n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. qualm
    • uneasiness about the fitness of an action
    • a mild state of nausea

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  7. qualm
    feeling of uneasiness, doubt or fear
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini

  8. Qualm
    Meant "plague", from the original sense of death and destruction. Meaning had softened to "feeling of faintness" by 1530, and "unease or doubt" by 1553. "Scruple of conscience" doesn't show up until 1649.
    Found on http://tudorswiki.sho.com/page/Tudor+Wor

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