egrimony

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin aegrimonia.

Noun[edit]

egrimony (usually uncountable, plural egrimonies)

  1. (obsolete) sorrow
    • 1895, R. D. Blackmore, Slain By The Doones, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 1:
      They could not help themselves, being so slow-blooded, and hard to stir even by their own egrimonies).
  2. Alternative form of agrimony

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for egrimony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)