care-worn

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English

Adjective

care-worn (comparative more care-worn, superlative most care-worn)

Archaic form of careworn.
- 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: T Miller, for Taylor and Hessey, , →OCLC, page 119, lines 290–292:
  The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt / Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt / About his large dark locks, and faultering spake: […]
- 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, , →OCLC, page 139:
  She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was care-worn and depressed, though he was young.
- 1864 August – 1866 January, Gaskell, “The Storm Bursts”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. , volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., , published 1866, →OCLC, page 130:
  Yet Cynthia herself seemed anxious and care-worn, though she would not speak of her anxieties to Molly.

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