Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dismalness; terror; horror; dread.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Dreariness.
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- noun obsolete
dreariness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whilst Jacob's grief to me belongs and Jonah's dreariment, Ay, and Job's torment and despite and Adam's plight of bane.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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For, when I saw thee get thee gone upon our parting day, My eyes, for very dreariment, with tears of blood did rain.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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He weeps for dreariment and grief and stress of longing pain, And eke his transport doth the fires, that rage in him, bewray.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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Waterfalls; having been assured by the light struggling through the mist, that it would not be long till there was a break-up of all that ghastly dreariment, and that the sun would call on him to come forth from his cave of shelter, and behold in all its pride the Glen affronting the sea.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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A studiously placed pistol could thus put an end to his dreariment.
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4 Full of sad fear and ghastly dreariment, ghastly > frightful (from the same root as "ghost") dreariment > horror
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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4 Enrolled in flames, and smouldering dreariment, dreariment > gloom
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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