egritude

English

Alternative forms

• ægritude (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aegritudo (“illness, sorrow”).

Noun

egritude (usually uncountable, plural egritudes)

1. Distress or sorrow.
2. (rare) Physical sickness.

References

• “egritude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.