Careful Words

weariness (n.)

Weariness

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth

Finds the down pillow hard.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 6.

If goodness lead him not, yet weariness

May toss him to my breast.

George Herbert (1593-1632): The Pulley.

  Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xii. 12.