Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tired of the world.
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Examples
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From this world-wearied flesh; eyes, look your last!
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There were Moro chiefs, looking world-wearied and indifferent, followed by their attendant slaves; there were thrifty Moros willing to sell one anything from a
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“Well, and did it sound any different from what it did last year, and the year before, and the year before that?” inquired in measured, world-wearied tones the dampener of ardors.
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And now, by an unlooked-for turn of events, she found herself among the world-wearied ones, asking for the divine freshness of youth.
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I saw in an instant that there was an unmistakable likeness between the three; but the contrast of the marvellous brilliance and beauty of Amroth with the old, world-wearied, simple-minded couple was the most extraordinary thing to behold.
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The whole soliloquy and especially the superb epithet "world-wearied" are at least as suitable to Hamlet as to Romeo.
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The idea of the world-wearied wanderer driven from shore to shore in the vain search for peace and rest dates from Homer.
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The story tells of the salvation of a world-wearied youth, who is won back to life by the love and devotion of his slave.
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He found himself interested, on his own account, in this haggard-eyed, world-wearied, yet not unattractive man, as well as for Miss Hill.
The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day
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In the midst of the excitement and anxiety of that time, a gentle, loving, world-wearied soul passed out of our little mortal day at Gotha, and a fresh, bright young soul came into it in London.
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