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wearisome, a.|ˈwɪərɪsəm|
Forms: 5 werysom, 6 weerysom, werisum, wearisom, 7 wearysome, 6– wearisome.
[f. weary v. and a. + -some.]
†1. Weary; showing signs of weariness. Obs.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 751 The sotelte a man with sikelle in his hande, In a ryvere of watur stande wrapped in wedes in a werysom wyse. c1475Partenay 4406 Hyt declare and tell shall my wer[y]som gost. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer ii. (1577) K iv b, At banckettes they refreshed their weerysome mindes, in those high discourses and diuine imaginations of theirs. 1632Lithgow Trav. ii. 49 The wearisome creatures of the world declining to their rest. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 190 They came, and saw no attendance about him, onely a decrepit and wearisom old man, lying along upon the beach.
2. Causing weariness through monotony, or the continuance of uncongenial circumstances; tedious.
1450–1530Myrr. Our Ladye 55 The remedy hereof [undevotion] ys..to abyde vpon the tretable sayng of theyre seruice, be yt neuer so werysom. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 32 This is..The worlds sweet In, from paine and wearisome turmoyle. 1596Ralegh Discov. Guiana 97 It is nowe time to returne towardes the North, and we founde it a wearisome way backe. a1653Binning Sinner's Sanct. xxix. Wks. (1735) 316/2 What is your Life, but a tedious and wearisome Repetition of such brutish Actions which only terminate on the Body? a1699Temple Health & Long Life Wks. 1720 I. 288 All will allow..the several Conditions of Fortune to be all wearysome, dull or disagreeable without good Humour. 1782F. Burney Cecilia vii. vi, Simplicity uninformed, becomes wearisome. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Conf. Drunkard, A forecast of the wearisome day that lies before me. 1825Scott Betrothed xxii, It was impossible for life to glide away in more wearisome monotony that at the castle of the Garde Doloureuse. 1883‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 218 The ceremonies of a court are wearisome to me. 1891Speaker 2 May 533/2 The author might do much better if he would give up this wearisome murder-mongering, and take a fresh subject. 1902Spectator 11 Oct. 520/1 At almost wearisome length we have endeavoured to set forth the..case.
b. of a speaker or writer.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 35, I persaiv how werisum and tœdius I have bene unto your wurship. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. I. 43 Were it not that I feare to be wearisome unto you, I should never make an end of my newes. 1841–44Emerson Ess., Intellect Wks. (Bohn) I. 141 How wearisome the..political or religious fanatic..whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
3. Causing weariness from bodily or mental exertion or protracted pain; fatiguing, exhausting. Now somewhat rare.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. vii. §7 The roote hereof, diuine malediction; whereby the instruments being weakned wherewithall the soule (especially in reasoning) doth worke, it preferreth rest in ignorance before wearisome labour to knowe. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1692) 4 The Head..would have been very painful and wearisome to carry, if the Neck had lain parallel or inclining to the Horizon. 1703M. Warwick in Baynard Cold Bathing ii. 297 A weak and wearisom Pain, together with a soreness upon the Part. 1750Johnson Idler No. 6 ⁋2 There was once a time when Wreaths of Bays or Oak were considered as recompences equal to the more wearisome labours. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 66 Their great Trouble, Care, and wearisome Attendance. 1883J. E. Butler Autob. xii. (1909) 177, I climbed up the wearisome gallery stairs. 1916Lancet 8 Jan. 73/2 The hand-bellows is of such a size that it fills the hand comfortably, and continuous pumping is not wearisome. |