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weariness|ˈwɪərɪnɪs|
[f. weary a. + -ness.]
1. Weary condition; extreme tiredness or fatigue resulting from exertion, continued endurance of pain, or want of sleep.
c900Bæda's Hist. iii. ix. (1890) 178 [Þæt hors] þy ᵹewunelican þeawe horsa æfter weriᵹnesse ongon wealwian. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 35 [Adam] ne þurte naure þolen hunger ne þurst,..ne werinesse, ne elde, ne unhelðe, ne deð. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4920 +34 He lay muchedel of þe nyȝt in wo & in sorwe,..So þat aslep atte laste vor werynysse hym nome. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 35 Upberynge us in oure werynes. c1450Merlin ii. 39 Than the white [dragon] leide hym down to reste for werynesse. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxv. 9 For weirines on me ane slummer soft Come with ane dremyng. 1584Cogan Haven Health i. 11 First I shall declare what remedie is to be vsed against wearinesse which commeth by immoderate labour. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. vi. 33 Wearinesse Can snore vpon the Flint, when restie Sloth Findes the Downe-pillow hard. 1649J. Taylor (Water P.) Wandering to see West 8 At last, wearinesse and watching, began to inforce sleep upon me. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 86 If the Exercise be Immoderate with great Weariness, the Spirits and Heat are very much evaporated. 1797Coleridge Christabel i. 74, I scarce can speak for weariness. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. iv. 136 The muscles..may be for a long time in a state of involuntary contraction..without weariness being induced.
2. Tedium or distaste induced by monotonous or uncongenial conditions or occupations; tiredness of a course of action, a state of things, a person or thing. † Also rarely const. to with inf.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 129 b, Therof foloweth..tedyousnes in all goostly exercyse, & werynes of holy company. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 376 A certeyne wearynes, and impacience of long imprisonment. 1625Bacon Ess., Death (Arb.) 387 A man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only vpon a wearinesse to doe the same thing, so oft ouer and ouer. 1643R. Baker Chron. (1653) 9 Osred, whose wife Cutburga, out of a loathing wearinesse of wedlock, sued out a divorce from her husband. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xii, Weariness of soul lies before her, as it lies behind. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 37 The struggle..terminated, through weariness of enduring and inflicting suffering. 1885Manch. Exam. 15 May 5/6 Sheer weariness of things which are to them common and familiar.
3. Something that wearies.
1560Bible (Geneva) Eccl. xii. 12 There is none end in making manie bokes: and muche reading is a wearines of the flesh. 1845Froude Nemesis of Faith (1849) 109 Long devotions are a weariness to healthy children. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. x, The children were dull, and she began to believe she was doing no good—it was all a weariness. 1905R. Bagot Passport x. 90 To be compelled by fashion to sit down to a meal at the pleasantest hour in all the twenty-four is a weariness to the flesh and a vexation to the spirit. |