sickness unto death

Noun

Meaning

(philosophy, existentialism, Kierkegaardianism) Personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence.

(by extension) Despair, profound discontent, or a similar persistent debilitating malaise of the mind, spirit, or soul that produces a decline in mental, physical, or societal health and that may culminate in death or dissolution.

Examples

Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought. James Montgomery

... because man has been created in God's image, sin is not natural. Sin is the deformation of man, it is a cancer, it is a sickness unto death which has infected man. Rousas John Rushdoony

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