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  • noun tiredness; fatigue

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wearied +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • We will not preach any such doctrine, as to discharge any to come to Christ, till they be wearied and loaden; for, when a man conceiveth that he wanteth that weariedness, whither shall he go to find it?

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • She leant back on the wall against which the old woman had placed the stool, feeling very depressed and weary -- so weary that she did not feel able to do anything but sit still, which no doubt from every point of view was the best thing she could do, though but for her weariedness she would have felt much inclined to rush off again to look for them, thus decidedly decreasing her chance of finding them.

    Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

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