accidie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of accidie
1200–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin accīdia (alteration of Late Latin acēdia acedia ); replacing Middle English accide < Old French
Example Sentences
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And this book about “million-dollar babies” has a lot of million-dollar words: etiolated, accidie, budgerigar.
From New York Times
For Ms. Didion, that was not just a literary but a spiritual exercise, conducted in opposition to what she calls the “accidie” — the moral torpor — of the late 1960s.
From New York Times
After the sinnes of Envie and of Ire, now wol I speken of the sinne of Accidie.
From Project Gutenberg
For Envye blindeth the herte of a man, and Ire troubleth a man; and Accidie maketh him hevy, thoghtful and wrawe.
From Project Gutenberg
Envye and Ire maken bitternesse in herte; which bitternesse is moder of Accidie and binimeth him the love of alle goodnesse.
From Project Gutenberg
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