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But in his time these daily tediums were laid over the violently shifting tectonic plates of religious warfare.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

The hazards which it is useless to speculate about, the miseries, delays, tediums, casualties, have lost their exclamatory value and have fallen into the sullen routine of the day's work.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

It is a discovery I owe to my horror of all tediums, all wearisome, long-protracted affairs,—a sort of horror which has been principally inspired by long political conferences and ministerial discussions.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

And while we thus perfected the Country, we were also eliminating all sorts of tediums, disputable possibilities, and deadlocks from the game.

From Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

She looked worn out with the miserable little tediums of life, with constant stepping over ant-hills of stupidity and petty hopelessness.

From 'Doc.' Gordon by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)