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1560 Ld. Montague tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer sig. G4 Excepte eyther the great weerysomenes of our bodyes, or some other lyke necessitie inforce vs.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iv. x. 643 The fresh leaues..being put vnder the naked soles of the feete, they greatly take awaie their wearisomnes, which by far walking haue wearied themselues.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (ii. 17) i. 240 Sundry infirmities of body, as hunger, thirst, cold, wearisomnesse.

1672 T. Venn Mil. Observ. 184 But if the wind blow stiff, or there is a weakness or wearisomness in the Ensign-bearer, then he may set the butt end against his waste and not otherwise.

a1768 T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. (1770) III. 270 For in his Turn, every one must expect to be in a State of Wearisomeness and Pain, of Weakness and Danger.

1780 Ann. Reg. 1 A kind of languor and wearisomeness.

1882 E. W. Hamilton Diary 25 Nov. (1972) I. 364 R. G. evidently wants to get out of harness also, partly from a feeling of wearisomeness and partly from bad health.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 7 Such a witte, as is..diligent in painfull thinges without werisomnes.

1573 T. Twyne in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos v. L 4 b (argument) The Troiane wyues, at the instigation of the Raynbow, and for wearysomnesse of theyr longe trauayle: cast fier amonge the fleet.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. Q4, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Scanderbeg declaring his wearisomnes of captiuity..desire[d] to visite his kingdom.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §46. 266 That wearisomness which is taxed in the Iewes that said, when will the New-Moones and Sabbaths be gone?

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 2 Yet they shall..be made, spight of antipathy to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomnes & despaire of all sociable delight in the ordinance which [etc.].

1822 M. A. Kelty Osmond I. 289 Their wearisomeness of Osmond's stupidity.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Library Compan. II. 119 Where there is no variety, and where wearisomeness as naturally follows.

1840 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) II. xxiv. 156 I should have been afraid of the casting lots, lest it should arise from a wearisomeness of indecision, instead of waiting patiently for the time when He would enable one to decide according to His will.

1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Plinius Novocomensis in Panoplie Epist. 254 The commoditie is answearable in proportion and measure, to the wearisomnesse of the labour.

1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. 261 Amidst the joltings of the Waggon, the trouble and wearisomness of the journey, they kept their Prayer, as in the Quire.

1842 E. A. Poe Pit & Pendulum in Gift 1843 135 As if those who bore me..had paused from the wearisomeness of their toil.

1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune i. 109 b Ioy. The ayre is very cleere, I would it might not be changed. Reason. Thou knowest not how soone this cleerenes wil bring weerisomnesse: There is nothing so pleasant which continuall frequentyng the same maketh not loathsome.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 5 The Ambassadours endeavour'd to abate the wearisomenesse of our stay there, by banquets, hunting matches, and walking.

1879 J. Hingston Austral. Abroad vii. 71 A great sameness about it was soon, however, observable, producing even the usual effect of monotony—wearisomeness.

1886 Manch. Examiner 27 Jan. 3/2 A second article..which has, notwithstanding these good qualities, just a suspicion of wearisomeness.