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OE Ælfric 2nd Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 208 Se sixta [heafodleahtor] is accidia, þæt is asolcennyss.

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 3 (MED) Ðies swikele senne haueð ȝiet ane suster ðe is icleped accidia, ðat is asolkenesse.

c1440 Polit., Relig., & Love Poems 246 ‘Accidia’ ys a souking sore, he traveylyth me from day to day.

a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 275 (MED) Accidia..kepith me yn cowch like a cowchour.

1642 Taylor's 2nd Pt. Theatre Gods Iudgments iv. 46 This fourth head of the beast of Hell, called Accidia or Desidia, hath a bad root, and spreadeth into many evill branches.

1743 J. Harris Let. in Gentleman's Mag. (1781) Aug. 354/1 Incur not by your neglect that mortal sin Accidia, whose name I should never have known but by your kind instruction.

1899 E. Moore Misc. Ess. iii. 174 Those who maintain that Anger and Accidia are related as excess and defect in the Aristotelian sense,..overlook the fact that such a supposed relation of these two Deadly Sins is quite inconsistent with Dante's treatment of them in the Purgatorio.

1930 Time & Tide 28 Mar. 414/2 Half of them suffer from the deadly spiritual disease of accidia.

1947 C. Gray Contingencies iii. 89 The combination of medieval accidia and modern weltschmerz, which we find in his [sc. Liszt's] Hamlet.

2005 S. G. Shoham Myth of Tantalus v. 167 The Levantine's shallow absorption of Western culture, on top of the ruins of traditional norms and values, makes for..meaninglessness, alienation, anomia, and accidia.