ACCIDIE Definition & Meaning

accidie

[ ak-si-dee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

acedia.

accidie

/ ˈæ��ɪ��ɪ /

noun

spiritual sloth; apathy; indifference

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of accidie¹

1200–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin ��ī�徱�� (alteration of Late Latin ��ŧ�徱�� acedia ); replacing Middle English accide < Old French

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of accidie¹

in use c13 to c16 and revived c19: via Late Latin from Greek ��ŧ�徱��, from a- ¹+ ��ŧ��ǲ� care

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And this book about “million-dollar babies” has a lot of million-dollar words: etiolated, accidie, budgerigar.

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For Ms. Didion, that was not just a literary but a spiritual exercise, conducted in opposition to what she calls the “accidie” — the moral torpor — of the late 1960s.

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

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After the sinnes of Envie and of Ire, now wol I speken of the sinne of Accidie.

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For Envye blindeth the herte of a man, and Ire troubleth a man; and Accidie maketh him hevy, thoghtful and wrawe.

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