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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
malady
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some doctors still regard menopause as a malady.
▪ The airline suffers from a common malady - lack of cash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between 1937 and 1941 he discovered drugs which mitigated the worst symptoms of these maladies.
▪ He determined not to yield to the malady, striding about the deck all night, refusing to give in.
▪ Her chronic malady, the result of a golf injury, has provided its share of good fortune, however.
▪ In Paris a cabby would have commiserated upon the unfortunate malady affecting his legs, but the Viennese were different.
▪ It is a strange malady that strikes following a stunning election victory and tests your ability to avoid injudicious and arrogant actions.
▪ Later, looking back, I wondered if for a brief hour my malady had blanketed me from consciousness of the present.
▪ Public health could not be restricted to the surveillance and prevention of specific maladies.
▪ The malady is marked by nasty kicks, retaliatory shoves, hard words and worse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
malady

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
malady

late 13c., from Old French maladie "sickness, illness, disease" (13c.), from malade "ill" (12c.), from Latin male habitus "doing poorly, feeling sick," literally "ill-conditioned," from male "badly" (see mal-) + habitus, past participle of habere "have, hold" (see habit (n.)). Related: Maladies.

Wiktionary
malady

n. 1 Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. 2 A moral or mental defect or disorder.

WordNet
malady
  1. n. any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"

  2. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, sickness] [ant: health, health]

Usage examples of "malady".

We cannot, In conclusion, too strongly condemn the general resort to strong diuretics so often prescribed by physicians for all forms of renal maladies, but which, by over-stimulating the already weak and delicate kidneys, only aggravate and render incurable thousands of cases annually.

During this malady, they caused several masses to be said in different places, especially at St Maur des Fosses, at St Amable, and at St Esprit.

I know well that prudes and hypocrites, if they ever read these Memoirs, will be scandalized at the poor lady, but in shewing her person so readily she avenged herself on the malady which had disfigured her.

The good man began to philosophise and to jest on her malady, and he told me some stories, germane to the question, which the girls pretended not to understand.

In the mean time he asked me all sorts of questions about myself and all my relatives, whether we had been subject to this and that malady, until I felt as if we must some of us have had more or less of them, and could not feel quite sure whether Elephantiasis and Beriberi and Progressive Locomotor Ataxy did not run in the family.

I had the impression that the author of the Spectator was afflicted with a dropsy, or some such inflated malady, to which persons of sedentary and bibacious habits are liable.

The worthy man entered, and after looking carefully round the room to see that we were alone, he came up to me, and whispered in my ear that Le Duc had a malady of a shameful character.

After my first night under the stars--wondrous night of wakefulness and hopeful music, throughout which I lay entranced at the foot of a wooded hill and was never for a moment uncompanioned by nightingale, cicala and firefly--I began to suffer from footsoreness, a bodily affliction against which romance, that certain salve for the maladies of the soul, is no remedy, or very little.

Since we are able to diagnosticate with the utmost precision the various affections of the heart, and since the discovery of certain specific medicines which exert most beneficial effects, we are enabled to treat this class of maladies with the most gratifying results.

Vole felt the malady that plagued all transplanted Earthlings, and which the Etherian music magnified, of natal vertigo-the feeling that the race of man had fallen off the Earth and was now at the mercy of influences for which no preparation had ever been made.

The exorbitancy of his grief, and the mortifications he underwent, soon produced an incurable malady, under which he languished from the month of September in the preceding year till the tenth of August in the present, when he expired.

I know at least a hundred people of the first rank who are suffering from the same malady as that of which you cured me, and would give the half of their goods to be cured.

But such was the disposition that Mother Nature had given me that fifteen months under The Leads had not been enough to cure this mental malady of mine.

Germain, who had been put in that fearful condition by a female gnome, who had intended to make him the executioner of Semiramis, who was to die of the dreadful malady before her term had expired.

I took leave of everybody, especially of Count Wagensberg, who had a serious attack of that malady which yields so easily to mercury when it is administered by a skilled hand, but which kills the unfortunate who falls amongst quacks.