great-pox

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great-pox (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Syphilis.
    • 1898, Thomas Stevenson, A treatise on hygiene and public health, volume 2, page 890:
      Putting aside passages which might possibly apply to great-pox, smallpox was evidently well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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