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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Qualm \Qualm\, n. [AS. cwealm death, slaughter, pestilence, akin
to OS & OHG. qualm. See {Quail} to cower.]
1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [Obs.]
thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead].
--Chaucer.
2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
`` Qualms of heartsick agony.'' --Milton.
3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
For who without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy
garbage, though by Homer cooked? --Roscommon.
4. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of
conscience; compunction. --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
qualm
n 1: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: {scruple}, {misgiving}]
2: a mild state of nausea [syn: {queasiness}, {squeamishness}]
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