Meanings
nounerumny (plural erumnies)
plural erumnies
- archaicpossiblyrareHardship, trouble, calamity.
of Europe's delirium / & Guinea's erumny.
2009, The Malahat Review, page 392 more examples
[…] erumnies and egritudes wherewith he is daily pestered […]
1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals ... : Methodically Digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials, Galenical and Chymical ..., page 148[…] which make them live a short and miserable life, as loaden with Erumnies and Diseases; so that they are here detained as a guilty Malefactor in an obscure filthy Prison, […]
2012 [????], Clovis Hesteau Nuisement, Sal, Lumen & Spiritus Mundi, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 112
Origin
- Latinaerumna
- Englisherumny
From Latin aerumna.
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APA
erumny. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erumny
MLA
“erumny.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erumny. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “erumny,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erumny.
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