homesicknesses

alternative home-sicknesses

1. pluralplural of homesickness

   I explore how women's bodies reflect homesicknesses — the gendered social and physical illnesses that result from the production of home.

   2004, Jigna Desai, Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film, page 32

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   It is well we should be reverent in their presence and homesick for them — but a thousand homesicknesses cannot put up what Carlyle called "my own four walls".

   1978, George Nauman Shuster, The Catholic Spirit in America, page 187

   Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven ; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents.

   1860, Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, page 67