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Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Thursday, June 20, 2002, 2:12
On 06/19 16:47  Doug Dee wrote:
> I looked up "boredom" in the OED and there are no citations before the 19th century. >
Wordcraft translates Boredom into Old English ae:dhrytnes. The Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary translates it back into Modern English as tedium. Related words are: ae:dhrot, disgust, weariness, from a:dhre:otan, to tire of weary, be tiresome to, displease, disgust ae:dhryt, troublesome, wearisome, disgusting; (n) weariness, disgust, tediousness ae:dhryttan, to weary. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@griffler.co.nz alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html "That's the people who hang around the edge of groups at parties. They are very exclusive."