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What is a qualm?

What is a qualm? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
  2. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
  3. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. [from 16th c.]
  4. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. [from 16th c.]
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With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me.
There are many people who do many right things under the influence of sickness, affliction, death in the family, public calamities or a sudden qualm of conscience.
My only qualm on this album is the rather boxy sound of this overture, but this is a minor misgiving when compared to the joys on offer.
But the deed was not yet done, and the qualm was kept under, and he slept.
And the salve to the qualm was always the same remembrance that the deed had not been done yet.
We're revisiting the venue to qualm any fears about its suitability.

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