Qualm: alternatives and connections

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

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Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

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The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

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Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling impropriet…

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Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling impropriet…

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of Misgive

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The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.

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A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

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