Sicklify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make sickly or sickish dated, nonstandard, rare, transitive

    "[…] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded."

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"[…] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded."

Etymology

From sickly + -fy.

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