[f. BORE sb.2 + -DOM.]

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  1.  = BOREISM.

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1864.  Realm, 10 Feb., 1. The complete art of boredom.

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1879.  Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, xv. 273. The male could assert his superiority and show a more vigorous boredom.

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  2.  The state of being bored; tedium, ennui.

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1852.  Dickens, Bleak Ho., II. xxviii. 253. [His] chronic malady of boredom.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., II. xxx. 264. A man whose grace of bearing has long been moulded on an experience of boredom.

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  3.  The class of bores as a whole.

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1883.  Gd. Wds., 115. Boredom rejoiced—gossip clapped her hands.

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