Obs. [a. OFr. amaritude:—L. amāritūdo bitterness, f. amār-us bitter.] Bitterness.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xxvi. 94. Thou haste absorbed me and reclosed in the grete see of amarytude.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physic, 18/1. Adde thervnto a little Suger, that heereby the amaritude may somewhat be diminished.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. (1632), 576. With much more bleeding amaritude of spirit.
1666. G. Harvey, Morbus Angl., xxvi. 124 (J.). What amaritude (bitterness) or acrimony (sharpness) is deprehended in Choler.
1755. in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
