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tediousness|ˈtiːdɪəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being tedious.
1. Wearisomeness on account of long continuance; tiresome lengthiness, prolixity; also, wearisomeness in general; irksomeness, troublesomeness; trouble, annoyance (obs. or dial.).
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 229 Tubal exercisede firste musike to alleuiate the tediosenes pastoralle. Ibid. IV. 255 The vthe age of the worlde..afflicte with moche tediousenesse [orig. crebris malis quassata]. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 139 Euen in this our tyme, some offende much in tediousnesse. 1599Davies Immort. Soul cccix, She distastes them all, within a while; And in the sweetest, finds a tediousness. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 936 The bloud of beasts, which with great tediousnesse and pain he [the bee-fly] sucks out. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T., Yng. Lady's T. II. 434 He..resolved rather to endure the tediousness of a passage by sea. 1881Times 9 Apr. 11/3 Ecclesiastical litigation abuses the common legal privilege of tediousness.
†2. Weariness, ennui; disgust, distaste. Obs.
1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 25 Vnto the tedusnes of some stondyng by, he thankyd owr lord and redemer..for innumerabulle benefetis. c1561Veron Free-will 46 To engender in them a hatred and tediousnesse of vyce. 1576Fleming tr. Caius' Eng. Dogs (1880) 5 These Dogges..applying to their pursuit, agilitie and nimblenesse, without tediousnesse. 1684Contempl. St. Man ii. v. (1699) 171 All there know God without Error... Love him without Tediousness.
3. Slowness, tardiness; dilatoriness. Obs. exc. dial.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 6 Its tediousness in bringing on and off. 1742H. Walpole Lett. to Mann (1834) I. xlviii. 189 By the tediousness of the post and distance of place I am still receiving letters from you about the Secret Committee. 1900[see Eng. Dial. Dict.]. |