Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

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.
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