Any of various fevers with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th–16th centuries.
（15-16世纪流行于英国的）汗热病
Example sentencesExamples
I am writing to tell you that your father, the Viscount, has died of the sweating sickness these three days past.
They lived at Ludlow Castle, but had little time together, for poor Arthur died only a few months later, perhaps of tuberculosis or the fever called the sweating sickness.
Linking contagion with the poor has been common since at least the early modern period, when they were blamed for plague, typhus, sweating sickness, and syphilis.
His two sons died of the sweating sickness in 1551, when the dukedom became extinct.
We have had a bad bout of the sweating sickness in the western wards.
Definition of sweating sickness in US English:
sweating sickness
nounswediNG ˈsiknis
Any of various fevers with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th–16th centuries.
（15-16世纪流行于英国的）汗热病
Example sentencesExamples
His two sons died of the sweating sickness in 1551, when the dukedom became extinct.
They lived at Ludlow Castle, but had little time together, for poor Arthur died only a few months later, perhaps of tuberculosis or the fever called the sweating sickness.
We have had a bad bout of the sweating sickness in the western wards.
I am writing to tell you that your father, the Viscount, has died of the sweating sickness these three days past.
Linking contagion with the poor has been common since at least the early modern period, when they were blamed for plague, typhus, sweating sickness, and syphilis.