1532, Henry VIII quoted in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, T.H.; second edition, Book II, page #168:
And that we being ſo long ſick, and exagitate with this ſame Sore , ſhould ſo long time in vain look for Remedy ; which when we have augmented our ægritude and diſtreſs , by delay and protracting of time , ye do ſo cruciate the Patient and Afflicted , as who ſeeth it ſhould much avail to protract the Cauſe, and though vain hope of the end of our deſire to lead us whither ye will.
1908, Albert Elmer Hancock, John Keats, Houghton Mifflin Company; Chapter XIII, page #82:
Mr. Robert Bridges, with a cry of “ægritude,” has damned it with faint praise.
1918, Annie Chartres, The Outrage, Alfred A. Knopf; Book II, Chapter VII, page #91:
The first rush of enthusiastic generosity abated, and when friends met at knitting parties and compared refugees there was a certain ægritude on the part of those who had them, and a certain smiling superiority on the part of those who had not.
