erumny

English

Etymology

From Latin aerumna.

Noun

erumny (plural erumnies)

1. (rare, possibly archaic) Hardship, trouble, calamity.
   • 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals ... : Methodically Digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials, Galenical and Chymical ..., page 148:

     […] erumnies and egritudes wherewith he is daily pestered […]

   • 2012 [????], Clovis Hesteau Nuisement, Sal, Lumen & Spiritus Mundi, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 112:

     […] which make them live a short and miserable life, as loaden with Erumnies and Diseases; so that they are here detained as a guilty Malefactor in an obscure filthy Prison, […]

   • 2009, The Malahat Review, page 39:

     of Europe's delirium / & Guinea's erumny.