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Patients are asked about living conditions, isolation, and feelings of burdensomeness to others.

From Slate • May 20, 2024

We feel ourselves all the burdensomeness of life as it is; we see also that this organization of life must inevitably be our ruin, if it continues.

From The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Garnett, Constance

It increases in burdensomeness, moreover, with the multiplication of degrees.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

And so the unwholesome relation wore on, with aggravating burdensomeness, to the inevitable crisis.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

The burdensomeness of Moses’ law, ere it was overlaid, in later days, by Rabbinical scrupulosity, has been much exaggerated. 

From Discipline and Other Sermons by Kingsley, Charles