Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Weariness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Weariness.
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- noun obsolete
fatigue
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Examples
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So long as the system of status remains intact, and so long as the leisure class has other lines of non-industrial activity to take to than obvious killing of time in aimless and wasteful fatigation, so long no considerable departure from the leisure-class scheme of reputable life is to be looked for.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899
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So long as the system of status remains intact, and so long as the leisure class has other lines of non-industrial activity to take to than obvious killing of time in aimless and wasteful fatigation, so long no considerable departure from the leisure-class scheme of reputable life is to be looked for.
Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893
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