AMARITUDE NOUN 1. bitter feelings or sentiments; acrimony; resentment; also, the quality of being bitter to the mind or feelings; distress; anguish - 1490 rare, chiefly poetic usage 2. a being bitter to the taste; bitter taste or flavour - 1599 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Middle French amaritude (bitterness of feelings, emotional pain, bitterness of taste), from Latin amāritūdō (bitterness of taste, bitterness of expression or feelings, harshness), from amārus (bitter) + -tudo (-tude suffix) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1490 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...y hast charged vpon my sholdres all the grete euylles y I bere & supporte. thou haste absorbed me & reclosed in the grete see of amarytude..." From: The Boke yf Eneydos Compyled by Vrygyle, Translated oute of Latyne in to Frenshe, and out of Frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me Wyllm Caxton
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