NOUN
- a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments
How To Use maidism In A Sentence
- The state of old maidism was reached at a very early age in those early days; Higginson wrote of an "antient maid" of twenty-five years. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
- There was one thing about her which excited much talk; I suppose it was only a piece of old-maidism. The Burial of the Guns
- Nothing but solitary old-maidism, unless two of you happen to be sisters, for who else will join her shame to yours? The Christian A Story
- So she thrusts the burden of her sins upon other people's shoulders, and travels the first stage to captious and disappointed old-maidism. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
- He supports her, and she has escaped the obloquy of old-maidism. Not Pretty, but Precious
- It was considered as carrying old-maidism to an extreme length. The Burial of the Guns
- There was, indeed, a danger -- his seniors said so -- of his developing into a regular "Auntie Fuss" of an adjutant, and when an officer once takes to old-maidism there is more hope for the virgin of seventy than for him. The Day's Work - Volume 1
- But one can never reckon with real, bred-in-the bone old-maidism. Chronicles of Avonlea
- It's nothing but a chronic case of old-maidism," said father impatiently. Chronicles of Avonlea
