What is "aweary" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What is "aweary" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "aweary": physically and mentally fatigued

Adjective

  • Meaning: physically and mentally fatigued
  • Example: `aweary' is archaic
  • Synonyms: aweary weary
  • Similar: tired
  • Adjective: (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!"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!"
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