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English
Etymology
From Latin aerumna.
Noun
erumny (plural erumnies)
- (rare, possibly archaic) Hardship, trouble, calamity.
1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals ... : Methodically Digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials, Galenical and Chymical ..., page 148:[…] erumnies and egritudes wherewith he is daily pestered […]
2012 [????], Clovis Hesteau Nuisement, Sal, Lumen & Spiritus Mundi, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 112:[…] which make them live a short and miserable life, as loaden with Erumnies and Diseases; so that they are here detained as a guilty Malefactor in an obscure filthy Prison, […]
2009, The Malahat Review, page 39:of Europe's delirium / & Guinea's erumny.