Both Uses of
tedious
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
- Thus, Mr. More, I have run out into a tedious story, of the length of which I had been ashamed, if (as you earnestly begged it of me) I had not observed you to hearken to it as if you had no mind to lose any part of it.†
*tedious = boring or monotonous
- Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, tedious can mean "long and slow" or "progressing very slowly" without any implication of being dull or boring.