egrimony means sorrow. It carries an Arena rating of 1255, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, egrimony ranks #46 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #3,951 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #4,918 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #5,773 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words.
Why “egrimony” is a great word
EGRIMONY — [Noun] A state of sorrow or melancholy. From the Latin aegrimonia ("sorrow, melancholy"), first attested in English in 1623. Unlike "agrimony," a bitter herb, or "melancholy," a broader gloom, egrimony is an archaic term for a specific, quiet ache of the spirit. It is the shade of grey particular to a rain-slicked gravestone, the hollow echo in a room after a long argument, and the weight of a folded letter that will never be sent—a precise sorrow for which the world has since forgotten the name.
Etymology
Latin aegrimonia.
noun
- sorrowe.g.“They could not help themselves, being so slow-blooded, and hard to stir even by their own egrimonies).” — 1895, R. D. Blackmore, Slain By The Doones, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 1:
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