Great-pox

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  1. 1
    Syphilis. obsolete, uncountable

    "Putting aside passages which might possibly apply to great-pox, smallpox was evidently well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries."

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syphilis

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"Putting aside passages which might possibly apply to great-pox, smallpox was evidently well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries."

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