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- noun Plural form of
worriment .
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Examples
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This unexpected addition to his worriments in finding places for the progeny of his petroleum and their progeny and their progeny's progeny was too much for the equanimity of a man without a digestion ....
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There are undreamed-of possibilities of getting above the worriments of life through an intelligent understanding and application of the physiology of cheer as the chief force in the life of the body, mind, and soul.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey
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Gimme dat candy right now; I gwine to see to it dat you gits back home looking like somet'ing after all my worriments wid ye. '
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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But Grandma listened patiently and when he was emptied of all his sorrows and worriments she took him out into her herb-garden, seated him where he could see the sunset hills and then she preached a marvellous sermon to just this one man alone.
Green Valley Katharine Reynolds
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The girl was finding in these busy days the truest balm for her own worriments.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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You see they don't have no worriments over what they has, like rich folks.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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It had no dangers, but it abounded in worriments and disappointments.
The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900
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This unexpected addition to his worriments in finding places for the progeny of his petroleum and their progeny and their progeny's progeny was too much for the equanimity of a man without a digestion ....
The Iron Heel Jack London 1896
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Ireland as my tedious and perplexing worriments over political problems.
Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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"You won't need them new boots, Milty dear, in the changes that may be comin 'to ye; so don't be bothering your poor father in his worriments over his new plans."
A First Family of Tasajara Bret Harte 1869
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