accidie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of accidie
1200–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin accīdia (alteration of Late Latin acēdia acedia ); replacing Middle English accide < Old French
Example Sentences
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And this book about “million-dollar babies” has a lot of million-dollar words: etiolated, accidie, budgerigar.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022
The doctors' diagnosis was pneumonia, but Castaneda's is accidie, a condition of numbed inertia, which he believes is the cultural disease of the West.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meridian demon was upon him; he was possessed by that bored and hopeless post-prandial melancholy which the coenobites of old knew and feared under the name of "accidie."
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
In the Parson's Tale Chaucer says: "Envie and ire maken bitternesse in heart, which bitternesse is mother of accidie."
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Norton, Charles Eliot
Gif me hit nat naut; þenne is hit gemeles vnder accidie · þat ich slouþe cleopede.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
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