accidie

Definitions

Examples

• Gif me hit nat naut; enne is hit gemeles vnder accidie at ich sloue cleopede.

• You hardly know why, but everything seems to go wrong; you seem oppressed with what old writers called "accidie."

• So when you think of these three men, it cannot be middle age or old age that really produce this accidie.

• Envye and Ire maken bitternesse in herte; which bitternesse is moder of Accidie and binimeth him the love of alle goodnesse.

• Such was the deadly sin of accidie, the name of which is forgotten today, though the thing itself is with us still.