worriment
Americannoun
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the act or an instance of worrying; anxiety.
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a source or cause of trouble or annoyance.
noun
Etymology
Origin of worriment
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Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel.
From Time Magazine Archive
We must be cautious, and that is the good way—the bit-by-bitness is what tells; now a look, now a word, now a hint, there a suspicion, there a worriment, there a hesitation or a doubt.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
So Neale took the old scrap-book home under his arm, neither he nor Agnes suspecting what trouble and worriment would arise from this simple act.
From The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to by Grace Brooks Hill
It may seem that Winn was borrowing needless worriment, and yet once the canker spot of suspicion fastens itself upon a man's mind, it grows until it turns all things green.
From Rockhaven by Charles Clark Munn
Had they carried their temporary possessor into any such worriment and trouble as he himself had often travelled through on their worn but faithful soles?
From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop
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