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noun

Qualm n.

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. (Obs.) " thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve (dead)."

A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony."

Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. "For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked?"

A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Qualm" Quotes from Famous Books

... I felt after that talk with the old Squire! I felt as blithe as a bird; and when we got home I ran and frisked and whistled all the way to the pasture, where I went to drive home the Jersey herd. The only qualm I felt was that I had acted without Addison's consent; but his first words when I had told him relieved ...

— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens

... I had a furious, cold qualm that either Dudley or Macartney had found out,—I don't mean about Collins so much as about Paulette having been mixed up with him. Till I knew I was damned if ...

— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones

... here for, anyway? I'll make splinters of these doors without a single qualm. (Hammers violently. Charinus approaches, vainly trying to attract his attention.) Open up, somebody! Where's my master Charinus, at home or out? (Still hammering.) Isn't anybody supposed to have the ...

— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • William Wallace Blancke

... stated, and the sudden announcement made before two men overwhelmed the timid woman. Then she was older than Lucy, and had picked up in the course of her career one or two inevitable scraps of experience, and she could not but wonder with a momentary qualm what Mr Proctor might think of his brother-in-law. Lucy, who thought Mr Proctor only too well off, went on without ...

— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

... demand of the kind was, however, urgently necessary, for George did not, as formerly, show a desire to flee; his belligerent attitude suggested fight and he was a husky specimen with a handy club. Even though he might have suffered a qualm at again beholding the white apparition in the moonlight, his determination to dare the spectre was bolstered by the voice and the manner ...

— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron

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