What does sicklify mean?
Sicklify means (transitive, rare, dated, nonstandard) To make sickly or sickish.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, rare, dated, nonstandard) To make sickly or sickish.
[…] 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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Sicklify means (transitive, rare, dated, nonstandard) To make sickly or sickish.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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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