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Maladies

malady \mal"a*dy\ (m[a^]l"[.a]*d[y^]), n.; pl. Maladies (m[a^]l"[.a]*d[i^]z). [F. maladie, fr. malade ill, sick, OF. also, malabde, fr. L. male habitus, i. e., ill-kept, not in good condition. See Malice, and Habit.]

  1. Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

    The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind.
    --Buckminster.

  2. A moral or mental defect or disorder.

    Love's a malady without a cure.
    --Dryden.

    Syn: Disorder; distemper; sickness; ailment; disease; illness. See Disease.

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maladies

n. (plural of malady English)

Wikipedia
Maladies (film)

Maladies is a 2012 film starring James Franco and written and directed by Carter. This was the pair's second collaboration, after Erased James Franco.

Maladies (disambiguation)

Maladies may refer to:

  • A synonym for the word diseases
  • Maladies (film), 2012 film directed by Carter and starring James Franco

Usage examples of "maladies".

Just put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, and behold the fevers and maladies which result!

Her breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned to death.

Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, that Potters brain was affected by the attack inflicted upon him by You-Know-Who, and that his insistence that the scar is still hurting is an expression of his deep-seated confusion.

Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, that Potters brain was affected by the attack inflicted upon him by You-Know-Who, and that his insistence that the scar is still hurting is an expression of his deep-seated confusion.

They are both in St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.