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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weariness  \Wea"ri*ness\,  n. 
  The  quality  or  state  of  being  weary  or  tried  lassitude; 
  exhaustion  of  strength;  fatigue. 
 
  With  weariness  and  wine  oppressed.  --Dryden. 
 
  A  man  would  die,  though  he  were  neither  valiant  nor 
  miserable,  only  upon  a  weariness  to  do  the  same  thing 
  so  oft  over  and  over  --Bacon. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  weariness 
  n  :  temporary  loss  of  strength  and  energy  resulting  from  hard 
  physical  or  mental  work  [syn:  {fatigue},  {tiredness}] 




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