She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
Dickens.
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Week (?), n. [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS. weocu, wicu, wucu; akin to
OS. wika, OFries. wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG. wohha, wehha, Icel.
vika, Sw. vecka, Dan. uge, Goth. wik&?;, probably originally meaning, a
succession or change, and akin to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn,
alternation, and E. weak. Cf. Weak.] A period of seven days, usually
that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.