[Ads-l] boredom, 1829

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 19, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU> wrote:
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> OED has 1853 in Dickens.
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> 1829 Polar Star p. 59: I obtained my first phase of boredom with frightful rapidity.
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> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=boredom;id=iau.31858045093683;view=1up;seq=7;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0
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> 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.

Time-traveling Tipper?

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> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwk9tf;view=1up;seq=109
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> 1831 [Twice in v. 2,  Benjamin Israeli, Young Duke]
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> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=boredom&id=uiuo.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft8rb7rk0n&view=1up&seq=9
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> SG
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