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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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(Werysum,) Weirrisum, adj. Also: verresum, wiresume, virisum, wearisome. [Late ME and e.m.E. werysom (1450-1530), werisum (1573), wearisome (1590).] a. Causing fatigue, tiring, exhausting; tedious. b. Tired, weary.a. 1571 Cal. Sc. P. III 586.
Quhat gryt lois of rent and goodes; quhat displesure and wiresume travell I have sustinit 1600 Crim. Trials II 294.
The said Schir Alexander cam till him againe thinking the tyme verrie weirrisum till him 1608 Denmylne MSS in Highland P. III 114.
Virisum 1613 Haddington Corr. 123.
That … ye sould pyne yourself with long and verresum jornays, and indanger your self … to my gret gref and miscontentment 1638 Henderson Serm. 480.
A longsome and wearisome life 1653 Binning Wks. (1841) 235.
What is your life but a tedious and wearisome repetition of such brutish actions which are only terminate on the body?b. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ii 49.
The wearisome creatures of the world declining to their rest