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Sweating Sickness

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epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality

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Variants

synonym
miliary fever
plural
Sweating Sicknesses
possessive
Sweating Sickness's
pluralpossessive
Sweating Sicknesses'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
§2
a disease of cattle (especially calves)

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