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Webster 1913 Edition
Aweary
A-wea′ry
,Adj.
[Pref.
a-
+ weary
.] Weary.
[Poetic]
“I begin to be aweary of thee.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aweary
AWE'ARY
,Adj.
Definition 2025
aweary
aweary
English
Adjective
aweary (comparative more aweary, superlative most aweary)
- (poetic) weary, tired.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, I-ii - ...my little body is aweary of this great world.
- 1830: Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'
- 1849+: George Ticknor, History Of Spanish Literature
- And all his people told him that their horses were aweary, and that they were aweary themselves.
- 1854: Charles Dickens, Hard Times: Second Book: Chapter VIII
- ...when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.
- 1871 Dante Gabriel Rosetti, The cloud confines, lines 49-50
- The sky leans dumb on the sea, / Aweary with all its wings;
- 1891: Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company - Chapter XII
- "Nay, save that she seems aweary".
- ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography
- I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
- 1940: Ngaio Marsh, Death of a Peer
- "I am aweary with watching," said Frid. "Praise to Allah the day is ours. Ho, slaves!"
References
- aweary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914