[Ads-l] boredom, 1829

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has 1853 in Dickens.


1829 Polar Star p. 59: I obtained my first phase of boredom with frightful rapidity.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=boredom;id=iau.31858045093683;view=1up;seq=7;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0


1829  Romances of Real life, by Mrs. Gore p. 99  :  ambling, mincing fops...poising their words, and polishing their sentences to the acme of boredom.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwk9tf;view=1up;seq=109


1831 [Twice in v. 2,  Benjamin Israeli, Young Duke]

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=boredom&id=uiuo.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft8rb7rk0n&view=1up&seq=9


SG

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