Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anguish; intense bodily or mental pain.
- noun In medicine, extreme anxiety, accompanied with painful constriction at the epigastrium, and often with palpitation and oppression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine, dated Great
anxiety accompanied bypainful constriction at the upper part of thebelly , often withpalpitation andoppression .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The summum genus is dotage, or anguish of the mind, saith Aretaeus; of the principal parts, Hercules de Saxonia adds, to distinguish it from cramp and palsy, and such diseases as belong to the outward sense and motions [depraved] [1030] to distinguish it from folly and madness (which Montaltus makes angor animi, to separate) in which those functions are not depraved, but rather abolished;
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For love is a perpetual [5345] flux, angor animi, a warfare, militat omni amans, a grievous wound is love still, and
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Yea, but this expectation is it which tortures me in the mean time; [3810] futura expectans praesentibus angor, whilst the grass grows the horse starves: [3811] despair not, but hope well,
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One day of grief is an hundred years, as Cardan observes: 'Tis carnificina hominum, angor animi, as well saith Areteus, a plague of the soul, the cramp and convulsion of the soul, an epitome of hell; and if there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
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But _angor_ meant not only quinsy or compression of the neck; it assumed a moral import, and signifies anguish or anxiety.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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I suffered from an angor every spring, and my medical doctor suggested ......
Gear Live 2010
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Mae Prydain, er enghraifft, ar rai mesurau, yn llai cyfartal nawr nac oedd hi pan etholwyd Tony Blair ond mae "cyfartaledd cymdeithasol" o hyd yn angor athronyddol i'r Blaid Lafur.
BBC Blog Network 2008
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M aine papers included: B angor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from M aine Times (1994-2002) and Central M aine M orning S entinel
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I heartily laugh at such petulant angor, merely because his errors have been pointed out.
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At vcrum nc id fit, parum angor: iIlud mcmcmagis torqucn Quod tara cclebrium balncorum fodinam a ncmine P
De balneorum naturalium viribus libri quatuor Bartolomeo Viotti 1552
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