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Becoming world-weary
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jading
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jade \Jade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jaded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jading .] To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] --Shak. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.] I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. --Shak. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued ...
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vb. (present participle of jade English)
Usage examples of jading.
The utmost power of language is not enough to describe the frustration a naturalist must endure in this jading pursuit of merely political, material ends: had we been allowed some days ashore at Minorca, for example, I could have shown you not only the black wheatear, not only the curious Minorcan chat, but Eleanora's falcon!
Yet even so, you can have no conception of the jading worry of settling a Baltic convoy, five or six hundred sail of merchantmen, even a thousand just before the ice stops navigation, and almost nothing to convoy them with.