taedium

Everyone with a safe £500 a year turned highbrow and began training himself in taedium vitae.

Inside the Whale 1940

The kind of taedium vitae you mention I also occasionally experience here.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

The kind of taedium vitae you mention I also occasionally experience here.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

Topatius annulo gestatus, dexterum lupi testiculum attritum, et oleo vel aqua rosata exhibitum veneris taedium inducere scribit

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Tartarus; it was not so delicious at first, as now it is bitter and harsh; a cankered soul macerated with cares and discontents, taedium vitae, impatience, agony, inconstancy, irresolution, precipitate them unto unspeakable miseries.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance ... and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the ‘disgust for life,’ taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force.

The Torrents of Spring 2006

Superintendent Jury was coming through the door of the hotel, saw him sitting here, obviously realized he was in the throes of taedium vitae, and quickly came over with the other detective, Lasko.

the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984

Superintendent Jury was coming through the door of the hotel, saw him sitting here, obviously realized he was in the throes of taedium vitae, and quickly came over with the other detective, Lasko.

The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984

Most of these highnesses and mightinesses formed part of what the Germans themselves sarcastically called their "Ornamental Staff," and as Moltke seldom allowed them any real share in the military operations, they doubtless found in Home's performances some relief from the _taedium vitae_ which overtook them during their long wait for the capitulation of Paris.

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

Beyond the natural interest a soldier has for imaginative minds in the civil walks of life, De Stancy's occasional manifestations of taedium vitae were too poetically shaped to be repellent.

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884