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Carking

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Wearying, distressing (of care, or similar words). archaic

    "After mutual protestations of friendship and regard, he […] took his leave in a strange perplexity of mind, occasioned by the images of love, intruding upon the remonstrances of carking care."

Noun
  1. 1
    Wearying; distress. archaic

    "What anxious cares and carkings have gnaw'd thy Breast, when Ravens and dumb Creatures have committed themselves to God's Wisdom and Goodness?"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of cark form-of, gerund, participle, present

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