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==Trivia==

The word "boredom" first appears in the [[English language]] in the [[Charles Dickens]] [[novel]] ''[[Bleak House]]'', published in 1852, where he speaks of Lady Dedlock's "chronic malady of boredom". Bore, bored, and boring, in the sense used here, all appear somewhat earlier: "bore" first appears as a generic noun, meaning the malady or experience of boredom, in a letter of the [[Earl of March]] in 1766 (the same year also in a letter of [[G.J. Williams]] meaning one who suffers from boredom, specifically referring to the individual as "a French bore," indicating the derivation from "''[[ennui]]"''; the modern sense of a thing which bores appears twelve years later), "bored" as a verb-derived adjective in a letter of the [[Earl of Carlisle]] in 1768--again in reference to the French, as it is his English friends "who are to be bored by these Frenchmen"--and "boring" in [[Theodore Hook]]'s "''[[Fitzherbert]]"'' of 1840, where he speaks of Emily's endurance of "Miss Mathews's boring vanities".

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