Definition of "drearihood" []

• Affliction; dreariness (noun)

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• "They flow, they lighten my despair and ease my drearihood."
• "Now all folk at Wethermel when they looked upon Osberne's face deemed that he was bettering of the drearihood which had weighed on him ever since the battle with the strong-thieves, and of that bettering they were right glad, for they were wont to have much joy of his fellowship."