Both Uses
ennui
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
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- It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.†
Chpt 18 *
- But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition.†
Chpt 30
Definitions:
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(1)
(ennui) the feeling of being bored by something tedious
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)