sweating(n.)
c. 1200, "emission of perspiration from the pores," verbal noun from sweat (v.). By early 15c. as "severe extortion."
Sweating sickness was a sudden, often-fatal fever, accompanied by intense sweating, that struck England 1485 and returned periodically through mid-16c., described in the original citation (a chronicle from 1502) as "a grete deth and hasty."
该词起源时间:约1200年