Definition of "lassitudes" [lassitudes]

• Plural form of lassitude. (noun)

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• "In doing so, they themselves had to go through the terrors, the pains, miseries, vexations and lassitudes which the victims and the families of the victims of the crime of apartheid had gone through."
• "Thankfully, Ms Goodchild did not make good on this threat, and though her counsel can certainly argue that this heinous comment was made under duress, the fact, My Lord, is that all women dealing with newborn children suffer from sleep deprivation and its attendant lassitudes, but the vast majority of women do not threaten to kill their children, no matter how fatigued they might be."
• "Now from his new point of view he was to find they were not arranged at all; that government was a compromise of aggressions and powers and lassitudes, and law a convention between interests, and that the poor and the weak, though they had many negligent masters, had few friends."