Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mental trouble; sorrow; distress; more rarely, bodily sickness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sickness; ailment; sorrow.
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- noun
Distress orsorrow . - noun rare Physical
sickness .
Etymologies
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From Latin aegritudo ("illness” “sorrow").
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reesetee commented on the word egritude
Sickness, ailment, sorrow.
February 5, 2007