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We must pray to Him that we be not weary or faint in doing the work He has set before us, that we may be worthy of going to that place where "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest ZOË'S SERMON Oh!

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  1. adjective Physically or mentally fatigued.
  2. adjective Expressive of or prompted by fatigue: a weary smile.
  3. adjective Having one's interest, forbearance, or indulgence worn out: weary of delays.
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  • Beyond that, the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
  • Many a time have I longed to be where the weary are at rest. —  Catherine Booth: A Sketch
  • Many a time have I longed to be where the weary are at rest.' —  Catherine Booth: A Sketch
  • Let us be thankful that some time or other we shall go 'where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. —  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • ANENT MUNGO GLEN Earth to earth," and "dust to dust The solemn priest hath said So we lay the turf above thee now And we seal thy narrow bed But thy spirit, brother, soars away Among the faithful blest Where the wicked cease from troubling And the weary are at rest MILMAN XXII. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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weary:   wearied ·  wearying
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  1. Middle English weri, from Old English wērig.

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  1. from Middle English wery, weri, from Anglo-Saxon wērig = Old Saxon wōrig (in comp.), weary, = Old High German wōrag, wuarag, drunken. Cf. Anglo-Saxon wōrian, wander, travel, roll, from wōr, prob. a moor or wet place (later Middle English wor: “wery so water in wore,” ‘dull as water in pool’), in comp. wōr-hana, a moorcock; cf. Anglo-Saxon wōs, also was, mire, wet, ooze: see wase, woose, ooze.
  2. from Middle English werien, from Anglo-Saxon wērigean, gewērigean, weary, fatigue, from wērig, weary: see weary, a.
  3. from wearty, v., variant of wary, curse: see wary.
 

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