1) Anxiety 2) Apprehensive feeling 3) Compunction 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Exclusively Saxon word 6) Feeling of doubt 7) Hesitation about something 8) Misgiving 9) Pang of conscience 10) Pang or misgiving 11) Reservation 12) Scruple 13) Sudden disturbing feeling 14) Sudden misgiving 15) Twinge of conscience
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1) Hesitation 2) Misgiving 3) Pang 4) Queasiness 5) Regret 6) Scruple 7) Squeamishness 8) Twinge
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- uneasiness about the fitness of an action
- a mild state of nausea
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• (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.
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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 garbage, though by Homer cooked?' (Roscommon) ... 4. ...
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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 ystorve [ dead].»
Chaucer. ...Found on
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feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sicknessÂ
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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 and Mr. Hyde') 3. Today, a sudden attack of emoti...
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[Wuthering Heights] faintness or nausea.
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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.
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an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying. · a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving: a sudden qualm about the success of the venture. · a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, esp. of nausea.
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[SAT terms] uneasiness about the fitness of an action
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[Literary terms] uneasiness about the fitness of an action
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