Citations:ægritude

English citations of ægritude

Noun: archaic form of egritude

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• 1532, Henry VIII quoted in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, T.H.; second edition, Book II, page #168:

  And that we being ſo long ſick, and exagitate with this ſame Sore , ſhould ſo long time in vain look for Remedy ; which when we have augmented our ægritude and diſtreſs , by delay and protracting of time , ye do ſo cruciate the Patient and Afflicted , as who ſeeth it ſhould much avail to protract the Cauſe, and though vain hope of the end of our deſire to lead us whither ye will.

• 1908, Albert Elmer Hancock, John Keats, Houghton Mifflin Company; Chapter XIII, page #82:

  Mr. Robert Bridges, with a cry of “ægritude,” has damned it with faint praise.

• 1918, Annie Chartres, The Outrage, Alfred A. Knopf; Book II, Chapter VII, page #91:

  The first rush of enthusiastic generosity abated, and when friends met at knitting parties and compared refugees there was a certain ægritude on the part of those who had them, and a certain smiling superiority on the part of those who had not.