Is this sort of unintentional ? insult a legacy of past/distant worse inequities, or a possible diathesis for future ones?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense Of Generalizations and “Petty” Complaints] Reference

‘Well,’ said Reardon, musing cheerfully, ‘I shall never become a drunkard; I haven’t that diathesis, to use your expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

Illness, as is well known, tends to interfere with the nourishment of the skin and to establish an atrophic diathesis of the follicular ganglia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919] Reference

How far physiologists may deem that such an abnormal circumstance may have been influential in producing a diathesis of mind and body deficient in vigor, energy and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

In degeneration of the heart, however, the method of Ebstein may be tried; and when there is renal calculi and gouty diathesis, that of Germain See may prove satisfactory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference

This state is called sthenic diathesis or disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference

So I sairched through me books for the thrue diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit of Women Fourth Edition] Reference

His diathesis excuses him as much in one case as in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger] Reference

The cause was simply that the rowdyish diathesis is just now prevalent.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

It indicates the scrofulous diathesis, and calls for more iron in the blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference

Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and cosmopolitan proclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

He was very abstemious in his diet, having to contend with a gouty diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

"But she didn't die of diathesis giving birth to the first of you," said Kate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Land] Reference

All this joins on to what you call the 'variational diathesis' of men of genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference

The patient may tell you that he has a humor in the blood, a scrofulous diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures] Reference

Women of a highly-nervous diathesis suffer much more from these drains than robust women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference

Chazarin mentions a case in a woman of fifty, without any other apparent symptom of diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

It also explains why cancer, or rather the disposition to its development (diathesis), is hereditary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Cure] Reference

THE heroes of Chesterton's romances have an adipose diathesis, as a reviewer has been heard to remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference

The cognitive diathesis-stress theories of depression: Toward an adequate evaluation of the theories validities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages] Reference

His peculiar diathesis enabled him to conserve their freshness on to full maturity, when he gave them literary form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference

We cannot, however, fail to recognize a diathesis which, while still apparently healthy, is predisposed to hysteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference

There is often a hereditary tendency, and the gouty and rheumatic diathesis must occasionally be considered potential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

Nothing is said or suggested of any homosexual practices, but we see clearly here what may be termed the homosexual diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference

It is a rare disease, and but seldom met with in America; it is seen chiefly in children and young people of a scrofulous diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

In whichever rank you see corruption, be assured it equally pervades all ranks -- be assured it is the symptom of a bad social diathesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character] Reference

Fracture of the coronoid process becomes important principally as an evidence of the existence of a morbid diathesis, such as osteoporosis, or the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

The disease -- or shall we say, to use a neutral term -- the diathesis of commercialism found in America an open field and swept through it like a fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appearances Being Notes of Travel] Reference

The editor was a gallant Cavalier, who warns the ladies in the first number that novel reading "induces a sickly diathesis of the mind, or mental marasmus.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850] Reference

One man may have a pulmonary, another a bilious and another a dypso-maniac diathesis, and an exposure to exciting causes in one case is as fatal to health as in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger] Reference