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# malady

«malady» in Mova's school dictionary: **an illness, especially a long or serious one** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural maladies)

### meaning for a pupil

A malady is an illness, especially a long or serious one. Old or formal use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malady/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, the illness that a prince or a king suffers from

### examples

- The doctors could not cure the Prince's malady. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malady/#x1)
- As the day went on, the malady grew worse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malady/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «malady» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malady/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.