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misease

American  
[mis-eez] / mɪsˈiz /

noun

  1. Archaic. discomfort; distress; suffering.

  2. Obsolete. poverty.


Etymology

Origin of misease

1150–1200; Middle English misese < Old French mesaise. See mis- 1, ease

Example Sentences

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He called to his table such good knights as were in misease, by reason of prison or of war.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de

And they went on, all an-ned as they were, till they came to where Geoffry, the Marshal of Champagne, was keeping guard in the rear, in very great anxiety and misease.

From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de

We die, sire, of famine and of all misease.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

There were they a while of time in great misease, and so long that the son of the Count was much sick, insomuch that the Count and Messire Thibault had fear of his dying.

From Old French Romances by Morris, William

Sir," saith she, "Then are you going to see my son, wherefore tell my son, and you see him, of mine evil plight and my misease, and King Fisherman my brother.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian