Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Idleness; laziness; indolence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
desidious .
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Examples
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The Germans, he says, perceiving our "desidiousness" and negligence, were daily sending young scholars hither, who spoiled the books, and cut them out of libraries, and returned home and put them abroad as monuments of their own country. 3.75
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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