"taedium" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} taedium (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of tedium Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: tedium Related terms: taedium vitae
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          "ref": "1845, J. L. Hilpert, A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and English Language, volume II, Carlsruhe: Th. Braun, page 777, column 1:",
          "text": "3) Die Langeweile — , to beguile ennui, the taedium or dullness [of a place &c.] with playing;",
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          "text": "The procession along the sacred road from Athens to Eleusis (see Wordsworth’s Greece, p. 145) used to wile the taedium of the journey with these banterings, as the ‘Canterbury Pilgrimage’ in the time of Chaucer appears to have done.",
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          "ref": "1886 September, Prof. Bloombergh, “La Chanson de Roland”, in The Lafayette, volume XII, page 79, columns 1–2:",
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          "ref": "1904, Arnold Haultain, “The Mystery of Golf”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 94, page 90:",
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          "ref": "1954, The American Society Legion of Honor Magazine, volume 25, page 354:",
          "text": "Vanished was the taedium that killed the July Monarchy (“France is bored!”), the listlessness, the shrugging of weary shoulders, the raising of sceptical eyebrows, that were to beset the Third Republic—and the Fourth.",
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