Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making sad, or the state of being sad.
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"That in spacious knowledge there is much contristation, and that he that increaseth knowledge increaseth anxiety;" that Saint Paul gives
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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