aweary

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1. poeticWeary, tired.

   1849+, George Ticknor, History Of Spanish Literature And all his people told him that their horses were aweary, and that they were aweary themselves.

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   […] my little body is aweary of this great world.

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

   She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'

   1830, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana

   […]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.

   1854, Charles Dickens, “Second Book: Chapter VIII”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC

   The sky leans dumb on the sea, / Aweary with all its wings;

   1871, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, The cloud confines, lines 49–50

   "Nay, save that she seems aweary".

   1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company - Chapter XII