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slug: boredom-word
passed: 2026-10-14
by: the assay line (research/assay-line/cited-1014/), Codex fixer directed by claude-assaying-boyle-1014; source record by Codex, checked by Codex; repair review by Codex, 2026-10-14
checked: 104
confirmed: 76
wrong: 27
unverifiable: 0
observed: 0
stale: 1
---

This was the directed 2026-10-14 assay repair of boredom-word, read at 4bec84fb04, using research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/triage.json. The fixer independently re-read the evidence for every edited item, applied all 19 directed local fixes (15 WRONG, three MINOR and one STALE dateModified), retained the nine listed MINOR items without editing, and rejected the two path-access findings with evidence. The 74 CONFIRMED lines from the Codex N2 checker are carried forward with their source evidence and original scope; this does not claim that the fixer independently re-opened every one of those sources. The record covers the directed triage plus those confirmations, not every observation or unresolved claim in the earlier pilot. All 12 MINOR lines count toward wrong. Literal backslash-u2014 preserves forbidden punctuation in historical quotations without introducing that character. Repair review 2026-10-14 confirmed the nine dated lines and two remaining authored copies outside this layer. Findings X3/X8/X22/X29 and X6/X19/X23 are now open pending board notes; the local fixes remain in place. The 104-claim counts are unchanged. The fixer's edit and command history below is retained; current repair outcomes are in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md.

## Claims

- MINOR | X1: The English noun 'boredom' is barely 180 years old | https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read Etymonline, boredom (n.), and the Dictionary.com article. The former dates the state sense to 1845; the latter reports an 1829 occurrence of the word. The rough age slogan conflates the particular sense, the word form and an attestation date. Retain MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. This is a separate metadata sentence from the universal-date claim in X3.
- MINOR | X2: the feeling has had names since Roman antiquity | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/ | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The note supports ancient descriptions of related experiences and identifies a scholarly disagreement about their identity. It does not establish that the continuist interpretation is false. Retain MINOR for unqualified wording and list at tier C. This metadata sentence is separate from the sentence being fixed for X3. Decision rests on the checker note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey.
- WRONG | X3: every date a sourced 'earliest-known' floor, not a birthday. | git show 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md; git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates.
- MINOR | X4: how a 4th-century demon became a Victorian noun | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | Re-read Etymonline, Dictionary.com and Goodstein. Acedia and boredom are compared experiences, not successive forms of one word; the reported 1829 use also predates the Victorian period. Replaced the figurative transformation in the Open Graph sentence already being repaired for X3.
- STALE | X5: "dateModified":"2026-06-26" | git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html; git log 67088387e0 -- public/strata/boredom-word/index.html | Read git log at 4bec84fb04: 67d81752859 (2026-09-14) and 2e60bcb5dd1 (2026-10-01) changed this page after the recorded June date. Set dateModified to 2026-10-14 for this revision; the directed JSON-LD exception needs no separate Updated line.
- MINOR | X6: same human dullness travelling under different words | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/ | Re-read the lead, SPAN.all and the apparatus alongside Goodstein and Yale’s Toohey description. The sources disagree on historical identity. Qualified the exact lead comparison to make the page consistent with its stated uncertainty in X23.
- WRONG | X7: Select any marker; read the line it first appears in. | git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html | Re-read all eight WORDS entries and detailHTML: five entries lack quote fields, and the three populated fields are not all first-attestation lines. The invitation now promises source notes.
- WRONG | X8: Every date is an earliest-known floor | git show 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md; git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates.
- WRONG | X9: “…taedium vitae \u2014 a weariness and loathing of life.” | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind; https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.tranq.shtml | Re-read Seneca’s English section II and Latin II.10. Stewart has “Hence arises that weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself”; the Latin has “taedium et displicentia sui”. Project Gutenberg confirms the translator and the same passage. Restored the actual English excerpt and supplied translator, section and a direct source link; the phrase taedium vitae in other works is not denied.
- WRONG | X10: “…the demon that wasteth at noonday.” (Psalm 90:6, Septuagint) | https://biblehub.com/sep/psalms/91.htm; https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2091%3A6&version=KJV | Re-read Brenton Psalm 90:6 and KJV Psalm 91:6. Brenton has “nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day.” The displayed demon/wasteth wording matches neither. Restored Brenton’s clause and identified translator, numbering and source; the separate KJV wording in the body is unchanged under X11/X18.
- MINOR | X11: Tied to Psalm 90:6 (LXX), the “destruction that wasteth at noonday.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2091%3A6&version=KJV; https://biblehub.com/sep/psalms/91.htm | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read KJV Psalm 91:6 and Brenton's corresponding LXX Psalm 90:6. The quoted destruction clause is genuine KJV wording; the surrounding LXX reference leaves translation and numbering insufficiently distinguished. Retain MINOR and list at tier C: this body sentence is separate from the altered blockquote fixed in X10. Preserve the quotation's words; any later clarification should identify its version outside the quotation. X18 is the same issue.
- WRONG | X12: The act of boring is named first. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2) and (v.2): the state noun is dated 1766 and the verb 1768. Replaced the act-first claim while preserving the vogue-word quotation.
- WRONG | X13: A decade later the thing or person that bores gets its noun | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2): 1778 dates the thing sense, and persons are recorded by 1812. Corrected the body and its source note while preserving the existing quoted definition.
- WRONG | X14: Only now \u2014 built from the verb with the suffix -dom \u2014 does English get an abstract noun for the condition. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore; https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | Re-read Etymonline bore, boredom and ennui. The state noun bore is dated 1766 and English ennui to the 1660s. Restricted 1845 to the selected boredom state sense; removed first-condition-noun claims in the card, check and facts.md, and scoped the verifier and Markdown spans to selected dates.
- WRONG | X15: The state finally has a name of its own, seventy-odd years after the verb. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore; git show 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/build.mjs | Re-read Etymonline and build.mjs. 1845 minus 1768 remains 77, but that subtraction cannot establish first naming of the condition: bore already named the state in 1766. Replaced the final naming claim and the repeated act/abstraction interpretation.
- WRONG | X16: The act of boring is named first. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2) and (v.2): the state noun is dated 1766 and the verb 1768. Replaced the act-first claim while preserving the vogue-word quotation.
- WRONG | X17: A decade later the thing or person that bores gets its noun | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2): 1778 dates the thing sense, and persons are recorded by 1812. Corrected the body and its source note while preserving the existing quoted definition.
- MINOR | X18: Tied to Psalm 90:6 (LXX), the “destruction that wasteth at noonday.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2091%3A6&version=KJV; https://biblehub.com/sep/psalms/91.htm | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read KJV Psalm 91:6 and Brenton's corresponding LXX Psalm 90:6. The quoted destruction clause is genuine KJV wording; the surrounding LXX reference leaves translation and numbering insufficiently distinguished. Retain MINOR and list at tier C: this body sentence is separate from the altered blockquote fixed in X10. Preserve the quotation's words; any later clarification should identify its version outside the quotation. X11 is the same issue.
- MINOR | X19: Same dullness, many names. | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/ | Re-read SPAN.all, applyFilter, the apparatus, Goodstein and Yale’s Toohey description. Qualified the exact readout comparison as part of correcting the inconsistency in X23; no separate MINOR correction line.
- MINOR | X20: twenty-three years earlier still. | git show 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md; https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm; https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md:45-54, 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:403-413 and build.mjs:23-34. The facts file explicitly measures the 1829 Albion date against Bleak House in 1852: 23 years. The interactive step immediately before Albion is Poe in 1844, only 15 years later. The number has a valid reference point but the wording leaves it ambiguous. Retain MINOR and list at tier C; this sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item.
- CONFIRMED | X21: research/boredom-word/build.mjs from the dated attestations (run it; it prints these): | git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html; https://artwaste.land/research/boredom-word/build.mjs; https://artwaste.land/checks/research/boredom-word/build.mjs | REJECTED with evidence. Directing triage reason: I re-read 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:192-193 and research/boredom-word/build.mjs:11-46. The page names the correct repository file in a plain text span; the program computes the selected differences and prints the stated values through its assertions. It does not advertise an HTTP URL at /research/boredom-word/build.mjs. A 404 at that inferred URL does not contradict the claim. The checker also reports a working public /checks copy. Reject this access-based finding: a download link would be useful, but the named path and stated computation are accurate. I inspected code without running a build. The fixer also read the named local file and the plain-text repository reference on the page.
- WRONG | X22: every year above is an earliest-known floor, not a coinage. | git show 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md; git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates.
- WRONG | X23: it does not declare them identical. | git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html | Re-read lead, readout, dek and apparatus. The page directly asserted sameness while disclaiming it. The direct comparisons now leave historical identity open; the unchanged apparatus disclaimer is now consistent with them. This correction does not decide between Goodstein and Toohey.
- WRONG | X24: the OED-as-myth-source point | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | Read the full Dictionary.com article: it reports an August 8, 1829 Albion use and discusses Dickens’s readership, but mentions neither OED nor Oxford. Removed the false source-list attribution and the unsupported quotation in facts.md, keeping the article as a secondary source for 1829.
- CONFIRMED | X25: Full sourcing & named uncertainties: research/boredom-word/facts.md. | git show 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md; https://artwaste.land/research/boredom-word/facts.md; https://artwaste.land/checks/research/boredom-word/build.mjs | REJECTED with evidence. Directing triage reason: I re-read 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:224 and the complete 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md. The named repository file exists and contains source references, the dated table, arithmetic assumptions and a Named uncertainties section. The page presents its repository path as plain text, not as either HTTP URL the checker tried. Those 404 responses do not disprove the stated location. Reject the missing-public-route finding; this does not endorse every claim in facts.md, whose substantive errors are covered by the accepted findings. The fixer also read the named local file and the plain-text repository reference on the page.
- MINOR | X26: the 'full' proverbs whose grim second halves were never written | git show 67088387e0:public/strata/the-rest-of-the-proverb/index.html | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The checker note distinguishes genuine forms, later additions and unattested original-version claims in the linked layer, and reports its explicit warning that absent attestation does not prove non-existence. Accept MINOR for the compressed absolute wording and list at tier C. This sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item. X27 is the same wording copied into navigation. No independent re-read of the neighbouring layer was needed under rule 4.
- MINOR | X27: the 'full' proverbs whose grim second halves were never written | git show 67088387e0:public/strata/the-rest-of-the-proverb/index.html | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: Same issue as X26: the checker note says the linked layer distinguishes genuine forms, additions and unattested originals, whereas this navigation description compresses that into an absolute. Retain MINOR and list at tier C; no WRONG item requires changing this sentence. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of the neighbouring layer.
- MINOR | X28: the feeling has had names since Roman antiquity | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/ | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The note supports ancient descriptions of related experiences while identifying competing interpretations of their identity. That warrants qualification, not a conclusion that the continuist interpretation has been disproved. Retain MINOR and list at tier C. This ancient-names sentence is separate from the following dek sentence fixed for X29. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey.
- WRONG | X29: every date is shown as an earliest-known floor, never a birthday. | git show 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md; git show 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates.
- MINOR | X30: the *feeling* has had names since Roman antiquity | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/ | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The note supports descriptions of related ancient states but identifies an unresolved disagreement about treating them as one unchanged feeling. Retain MINOR for the unqualified comparison and list at tier C. This Markdown body sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey.
- CONFIRMED | younger than the verb 'bore' it was built from, and not coined by Dickens. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore; https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 002 metadata-derivation. "1845, 'state of being bored,' from bore (v.1) + -dom" supports derivation; "1768" dates the verb. Poe's "but for the boredom" in December 1844 supplies independent pre-Dickens evidence.
- CONFIRMED | Dickens didn't coin 'boredom', and the feeling is far older than the word. | https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 006 metadata-not-dickens. Poe prints "but for the boredom" in 1844; Seneca describes "weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself" in antiquity. This supports the modest claim that related feelings predate Dickens, without resolving identity of all historical categories.
- CONFIRMED | Type "is boredom modern?" into a search box and you'll be told, often, that Dickens invented the word in Bleak House. | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 009 intro-search-result. Dictionary.com explicitly says "While many people maintain that Charles Dickens invented the term boredom, this is not the case." This supports the existence and prevalence of the misconception; it is not a measurement of a fixed search-result ranking.
- CONFIRMED | feeling it names had names a thousand years before him. | https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 010 intro-feeling-age. Poe prints "but for the boredom" in 1844; Seneca describes "weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself" in antiquity. This supports the modest claim that related feelings predate Dickens, without resolving identity of all historical categories.
- CONFIRMED | But a dictionary's first citation is the earliest quotation its editors happened to find: a floor, not a birthday. | https://www.wordorigins.org/harmless-drudge/dates-and-dating-of-sources-and-entries | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 017 dictionary-first-citation. Wordorigins explains: "It’s just the earliest that the particular researcher or team of researchers has been able to identify." That supports a revisable evidential bound, not a coinage date. It does not prove a particular source caused the Dickens myth.
- CONFIRMED | “My Lady, whose chronic malady of boredom has been sadly aggravated by Volumnia this evening…” | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1023/1023-h/1023-h.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 020 dickens-quotation. The primary novel has "My Lady, whose chronic malady of boredom has been sadly aggravated by Volumnia this evening," in chapter XXVIII. Its ellipsis on the page correctly truncates the sentence.
- CONFIRMED | Roman antiquity (~1st c. CE) | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 022 card-taedium-date. Stanford Encyclopedia dates Seneca "c. 1 BCE – CE 65". This supports a first-century era marker; it does not establish a first attestation at year 50.
- CONFIRMED | “weariness of life.” | https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/seneca.ep3.shtml; https://www.boredomsociety.com/jbs/index.php/journal/article/download/39/90?inline=1 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 023 card-taedium-gloss. The supplied excerpt does not contain the English gloss "weariness of life". The gloss itself is legitimate, not a verbatim Seneca quotation: Seneca Letter 24.22 has "taedio vitae"; the scholarly article explicitly glosses "Taedium vitae, that is, life’s boredom, weariness of living."
- CONFIRMED | The Romans named a settled disgust with living. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind; https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 025 card-taedium-body-1. Seneca describes "weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself" and "disgust at life". His first-century life is supported by Stanford Encyclopedia. This confirms the approximate historical description, not an exact date or a universal identity thesis.
- CONFIRMED | Seneca anatomises it in On Tranquillity of Mind; the phrase recurs across Roman moral writing. | https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.tranq.shtml; https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/seneca.ep3.shtml; https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/6*.html | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 026 card-taedium-body-2. The cited dialogue analyses the condition: "taedium et displicentia sui". The single recorded excerpt does not establish recurrence across Roman writing, so I checked Letter 24.22, "taedio vitae", and Gellius 6.18.11, translated "became tired of life". These supply the missing breadth.
- CONFIRMED | The marker sits at the era Seneca wrote \u2014 a century-level estimate, not a coinage date. | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 027 card-taedium-body-3. Stanford Encyclopedia dates Seneca "c. 1 BCE – CE 65". This supports a first-century era marker; it does not establish a first attestation at year 50.
- CONFIRMED | Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi. | https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.tranq.shtml | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 028 card-taedium-citation. The primary title is "L. ANNAEI SENECAE AD SERENVM DE TRANQUILLITATE ANIMI".
- CONFIRMED | 4th century CE | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/sin-of-sloth-or-the-illness-of-the-demons-the-demon-of-acedia-in-early-christian-monasticism/12A802C25408AC574A610748B3D49C95; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 029 card-acedia-date. The sources name Evagrius, "ca. 345–399", John Cassian, and "the ‘noonday demon’ ... of Ps 90:6"; the early Christian acedia description and citations check.
- CONFIRMED | the monk’s “noonday demon.” | https://www.ldysinger.com/Evagrius/00_Introd/12_var-acedia.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 030 card-acedia-gloss. Manually fetched after tool UNREADABLE. Dysinger's Praktikos 12 reads "THE demon of acedia, which is also called the noonday demon".
- CONFIRMED | The desert monks’ restless listlessness \u2014 staring at the sun, willing it to set. | https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/350710.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 032 card-acedia-body-1. Cassian Institutes X.2 says the monk "frequently gazes up at the sun, as if it was too slow in setting".
- CONFIRMED | Evagrius Ponticus; John Cassian. Wikipedia, Acedia. | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/sin-of-sloth-or-the-illness-of-the-demons-the-demon-of-acedia-in-early-christian-monasticism/12A802C25408AC574A610748B3D49C95; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 035 card-acedia-citation. The sources name Evagrius, "ca. 345–399", John Cassian, and "the ‘noonday demon’ ... of Ps 90:6"; the early Christian acedia description and citations check.
- CONFIRMED | the brooding, inert humour. | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632538/; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360018; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1912-1220-2 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 036 card-melancholy-gloss. LOC's alternate catalogue was read through search after HTTP 403: "Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy" and "carpenter's tools"; date "1514", medium "engraving". The Met independently gives artist, title, date and tools. British Museum describes a "mood of weary despair". The family/near-neighbour wording is an explicitly interpretive comparison, not an exact identity claim.
- CONFIRMED | Dürer, Melencolia I \u2014 a winged figure, tools idle at her feet. | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632538/; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360018; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1912-1220-2 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 037 card-melancholy-image. LOC's alternate catalogue was read through search after HTTP 403: "Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy" and "carpenter's tools"; date "1514", medium "engraving". The Met independently gives artist, title, date and tools. British Museum describes a "mood of weary despair". The family/near-neighbour wording is an explicitly interpretive comparison, not an exact identity claim.
- CONFIRMED | Not boredom exactly, but its near neighbour: the heavy, becalmed humour of melancholy, given its definitive image by Dürer. | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632538/; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360018; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1912-1220-2 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 038 card-melancholy-body-1. LOC's alternate catalogue was read through search after HTTP 403: "Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy" and "carpenter's tools"; date "1514", medium "engraving". The Met independently gives artist, title, date and tools. British Museum describes a "mood of weary despair". The family/near-neighbour wording is an explicitly interpretive comparison, not an exact identity claim.
- CONFIRMED | A reminder that the “family” of states is wider than any one word. | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632538/; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360018; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1912-1220-2 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 039 card-melancholy-body-2. LOC's alternate catalogue was read through search after HTTP 403: "Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy" and "carpenter's tools"; date "1514", medium "engraving". The Met independently gives artist, title, date and tools. British Museum describes a "mood of weary despair". The family/near-neighbour wording is an explicitly interpretive comparison, not an exact identity claim.
- CONFIRMED | Albrecht Dürer, engraving Melencolia I (1514). | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632538/; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360018; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1912-1220-2 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 040 card-melancholy-citation. LOC's alternate catalogue was read through search after HTTP 403: "Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy" and "carpenter's tools"; date "1514", medium "engraving". The Met independently gives artist, title, date and tools. British Museum describes a "mood of weary despair". The family/near-neighbour wording is an explicitly interpretive comparison, not an exact identity claim.
- CONFIRMED | first documented 1537 | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 041 card-langeweile-date. Goodstein explicitly writes "German ‘Langeweile,’ literally, ‘long while,’ made its first documented appearance in 1537" and "By the late eighteenth century" it took on existential connotations. Authorship is Elizabeth S. Goodstein and the title is The History and Politics of Boredom.
- CONFIRMED | literally “long while.” | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 042 card-langeweile-gloss. Goodstein explicitly writes "German ‘Langeweile,’ literally, ‘long while,’ made its first documented appearance in 1537" and "By the late eighteenth century" it took on existential connotations. Authorship is Elizabeth S. Goodstein and the title is The History and Politics of Boredom.
- CONFIRMED | German built the word out of time itself: a “long while.” First documented in 1537 as plain tedium; by the late 18th century it had swollen to carry the existential weight the French were giving ennui. | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 043 card-langeweile-body-1. Goodstein explicitly writes "German ‘Langeweile,’ literally, ‘long while,’ made its first documented appearance in 1537" and "By the late eighteenth century" it took on existential connotations. Authorship is Elizabeth S. Goodstein and the title is The History and Politics of Boredom.
- CONFIRMED | first documented 1537; existential sense by late 18th c. (Goodstein; IAI, The History and Politics of Boredom). | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 044 card-langeweile-citation. Goodstein explicitly writes "German ‘Langeweile,’ literally, ‘long while,’ made its first documented appearance in 1537" and "By the late eighteenth century" it took on existential connotations. Authorship is Elizabeth S. Goodstein and the title is The History and Politics of Boredom.
- CONFIRMED | into English, 1660s | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 045 card-ennui-date. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | annoyance hardened into weariness of spirit. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 046 card-ennui-gloss. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | Old French enui (13c.), “annoyance,” from Latin odium, “hatred,” via inodiare, “to make loathsome.” It entered English as a French loan in the 1660s and was nativized by 1758 \u2014 a whole vocabulary of weariness arriving before English coined its own plain noun. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 047 card-ennui-body-1. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | Etymonline, ennui. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 048 card-ennui-citation. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | “to weary, be dull.” | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 049 card-bore-v-gloss. Etymonline has "‘be tiresome or dull,’ 1768, a vogue word c. 1780-81 according to Grose (1785)". The short gloss is an ordinary definition, not a claim to reproduce every character of the dictionary.
- CONFIRMED | The English verb appears \u2014 “a vogue word c. 1780–81,” Etymonline notes, the slang of a particular fashionable moment. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 050 card-bore-v-body-1. Etymonline has "‘be tiresome or dull,’ 1768, a vogue word c. 1780-81 according to Grose (1785)". The short gloss is an ordinary definition, not a claim to reproduce every character of the dictionary.
- CONFIRMED | Etymonline, bore (v.): 1768. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 052 card-bore-v-citation. Etymonline has "‘be tiresome or dull,’ 1768, a vogue word c. 1780-81 according to Grose (1785)". The short gloss is an ordinary definition, not a claim to reproduce every character of the dictionary.
- CONFIRMED | “a thing which causes ennui.” | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 053 card-bore-n-gloss. The thing sense begins "1778, ‘thing which causes ennui or annoyance by dullness’". The page's short gloss preserves that meaning; this does not extend 1778 to persons.
- CONFIRMED | Etymonline, bore (n.): 1778. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 055 card-bore-n-citation. The thing sense begins "1778, ‘thing which causes ennui or annoyance by dullness’". The page's short gloss preserves that meaning; this does not extend 1778 to persons.
- CONFIRMED | 1845 (Etymonline) | https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 056 card-boredom-date. Etymonline says "1845, ‘state of being bored,’ from bore (v.1) + -dom." The 1768 verb and derivation support the comparison. This checks the attributed sense-date, not a demonstrated coinage or the first use of every sense.
- CONFIRMED | “the state of being bored.” | https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 057 card-boredom-gloss. Etymonline says "1845, ‘state of being bored,’ from bore (v.1) + -dom." The 1768 verb and derivation support the comparison. This checks the attributed sense-date, not a demonstrated coinage or the first use of every sense.
- CONFIRMED | German built the word out of time itself: a “long while.” First documented in 1537 as plain tedium; by the late 18th century it had swollen to carry the existential weight the French were giving ennui. | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 065 langeweile-translation. Goodstein explicitly writes "German ‘Langeweile,’ literally, ‘long while,’ made its first documented appearance in 1537" and "By the late eighteenth century" it took on existential connotations. Authorship is Elizabeth S. Goodstein and the title is The History and Politics of Boredom.
- CONFIRMED | Named since Roman antiquity \u2014 taedium vitae (~50 CE), acedia (4th c.), melancholy (1514). The experience is old. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind; https://www.ldysinger.com/Evagrius/00_Introd/12_var-acedia.htm; https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632538/; https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 067 summary-feeling. Seneca describes "weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself"; Praktikos calls acedia "the noonday demon"; LOC dates Melencolia I to 1514; Etymonline puts English ennui in the 1660s. The broad family chronology is supported, without proving identity.
- CONFIRMED | The English noun “boredom” is dated 1845 \u2014 younger than the verb “bore” (1768), and built from it. The word is strikingly young. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 068 summary-word. Etymonline says "1845, ‘state of being bored,’ from bore (v.1) + -dom." The 1768 verb and derivation support the comparison. This checks the attributed sense-date, not a demonstrated coinage or the first use of every sense.
- CONFIRMED | Poe, Southern Literary Messenger | https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 069 poe-stepper-citation. The Poe Society identifies "Southern Literary Messenger ... December 1844, pp. 719-727" and the text reads "but for the boredom which we should cause our readers in so doing."
- CONFIRMED | “…but for the boredom which we should cause our readers in so doing.” | https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 070 poe-quote. The Poe Society identifies "Southern Literary Messenger ... December 1844, pp. 719-727" and the text reads "but for the boredom which we should cause our readers in so doing."
- CONFIRMED | Edgar Allan Poe, eight years before Bleak House | https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm; https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/bleak-house/9/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 071 poe-eight-years. Poe's source dates the text to "December 1844". Furman's original-parts catalogue dates Bleak House chapters 26-29 to "11-1-1852". The difference in year labels is 8, consistent with the page's rounded comparison.
- CONFIRMED | The Albion (New York) | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom; https://nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/title1 | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 073 albion-stepper-citation. Dictionary.com names "The Albion" in 1829; the New York State Library catalogue identifies "The Albion, or, British, colonial, and foreign weekly gazette" as "New York, New York county : 1822-1856 : Weekly". The recorded excerpt alone did not locate the newspaper.
- CONFIRMED | “Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe…” | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 074 albion-quote. Dictionary.com reports "the August 8th issue of The Albion" in 1829 and quotes "Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe". Confirmed as that source's report, not an independent inspection of the 1829 original.
- CONFIRMED | Used casually, as if already familiar | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 075 albion-casual. The quoted sentence uses the word without defining it: "another precedental mode of boredom". The page signals its limited inference with "as if", rather than claiming a measured contemporary frequency.
- CONFIRMED | Reported by Dictionary.com; | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 077 albion-secondary. Dictionary.com reports "the August 8th issue of The Albion" in 1829 and quotes "Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe". Confirmed as that source's report, not an independent inspection of the 1829 original.
- CONFIRMED | And there is no reason to think 1829 is the bottom | https://www.wordorigins.org/harmless-drudge/dates-and-dating-of-sources-and-entries | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 079 floor-not-final. Wordorigins explains: "It’s just the earliest that the particular researcher or team of researchers has been able to identify." That supports a revisable evidential bound, not a coinage date. It does not prove a particular source caused the Dickens myth.
- CONFIRMED | The verb bore ("to weary") is attested 1768 | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 081 check-bore-date. Etymonline has "‘be tiresome or dull,’ 1768, a vogue word c. 1780-81 according to Grose (1785)". The short gloss is an ordinary definition, not a claim to reproduce every character of the dictionary.
- CONFIRMED | the noun boredom, 1845 | https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 082 check-boredom-date. Etymonline says "1845, ‘state of being bored,’ from bore (v.1) + -dom." The 1768 verb and derivation support the comparison. This checks the attributed sense-date, not a demonstrated coinage or the first use of every sense.
- CONFIRMED | The feeling, under names, runs back to taedium vitae in Roman antiquity (~50 CE): | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind; https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 084 check-roman-era. Seneca describes "weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself" and "disgust at life". His first-century life is supported by Stanford Encyclopedia. This confirms the approximate historical description, not an exact date or a universal identity thesis.
- CONFIRMED | 4th-century monks' "noonday demon" | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/sin-of-sloth-or-the-illness-of-the-demons-the-demon-of-acedia-in-early-christian-monasticism/12A802C25408AC574A610748B3D49C95; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 086 check-noonday. The sources name Evagrius, "ca. 345–399", John Cassian, and "the ‘noonday demon’ ... of Ps 90:6"; the early Christian acedia description and citations check.
- CONFIRMED | The "~50 CE" for taedium vitae is the era Seneca wrote, not the phrase's first attestation | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 088 check-seneca-era. Stanford Encyclopedia dates Seneca "c. 1 BCE – CE 65". This supports a first-century era marker; it does not establish a first attestation at year 50.
- CONFIRMED | And whether acedia, ennui, Langeweile and boredom are even "the same feeling" is a live scholarly dispute (Spacks; Toohey; Svendsen; Goodstein) | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/; https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3646111.html; https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/a-philosophy-of-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 090 check-scholarly-dispute. Goodstein rejects an ahistorical equation; Toohey's publisher says "a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history". Chicago identifies Spacks's Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind; Reaktion identifies Svendsen's A Philosophy of Boredom and its examination of medieval and modern manifestations. Together these support a genuine scholarly dispute; either single recorded excerpt is incomplete support.
- CONFIRMED | the attestation dates for English words (Etymonline) | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore; https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 092 apparatus-solid-dates. All three dictionary entries were manually read after 403. They explicitly give verb 1768, thing-noun 1778, boredom state sense 1845, and English ennui 1660s/1758. Extra earlier senses constrain the page's stronger historical inferences.
- CONFIRMED | the Bleak House line | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1023/1023-h/1023-h.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 094 apparatus-bleak-line. The primary novel has "My Lady, whose chronic malady of boredom has been sadly aggravated by Volumnia this evening," in chapter XXVIII. Its ellipsis on the page correctly truncates the sentence.
- CONFIRMED | the broad chronology of acedia/ennui. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind; https://www.ldysinger.com/Evagrius/00_Introd/12_var-acedia.htm; https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632538/; https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 095 apparatus-broad-chronology. Seneca describes "weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself"; Praktikos calls acedia "the noonday demon"; LOC dates Melencolia I to 1514; Etymonline puts English ennui in the 1660s. The broad family chronology is supported, without proving identity.
- CONFIRMED | the 1829 Albion antedating is reported by Dictionary.com | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 096 apparatus-albion-report. Dictionary.com reports "the August 8th issue of The Albion" in 1829 and quotes "Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe". Confirmed as that source's report, not an independent inspection of the 1829 original.
- CONFIRMED | the taedium vitae "~50 CE" is an era, not a first-attestation | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 098 apparatus-taedium-era. Stanford Encyclopedia dates Seneca "c. 1 BCE – CE 65". This supports a first-century era marker; it does not establish a first attestation at year 50.
- CONFIRMED | Etymonline \u2014 boredom, bore, ennui. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 100 sources-etymonline. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | Poe, The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. \u2014 full text, eapoe.org (Dec 1844). | https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 101 sources-poe. The Poe Society identifies "Southern Literary Messenger ... December 1844, pp. 719-727" and the text reads "but for the boredom which we should cause our readers in so doing."
- CONFIRMED | Wikipedia, Acedia (Evagrius, Cassian, Psalm 90:6, "noonday demon"). | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/sin-of-sloth-or-the-illness-of-the-demons-the-demon-of-acedia-in-early-christian-monasticism/12A802C25408AC574A610748B3D49C95; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 103 sources-wikipedia. The sources name Evagrius, "ca. 345–399", John Cassian, and "the ‘noonday demon’ ... of Ps 90:6"; the early Christian acedia description and citations check.
- CONFIRMED | Type 'is boredom modern?' into a search box and you're often told Dickens coined the word in Bleak House. | https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 112 dek-1. Dictionary.com explicitly says "While many people maintain that Charles Dickens invented the term boredom, this is not the case." This supports the existence and prevalence of the misconception; it is not a measurement of a fixed search-result ranking.
- CONFIRMED | the English **noun** "boredom" is genuinely young (Etymonline, 1845; | https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom; https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 118 md-noun-etymonline. Etymonline says "1845, ‘state of being bored,’ from bore (v.1) + -dom." The 1768 verb and derivation support the comparison. This checks the attributed sense-date, not a demonstrated coinage or the first use of every sense.
- CONFIRMED | **verb** "bore" (1768) it was built from | https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 120 md-verb. Etymonline has "‘be tiresome or dull,’ 1768, a vogue word c. 1780-81 according to Grose (1785)". The short gloss is an ordinary definition, not a claim to reproduce every character of the dictionary.
- CONFIRMED | but the popular "Dickens coined it" claim is itself a myth, antedated by Poe (December 1844, verified verbatim) and an 1829 newspaper | https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm; https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom; https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/bleak-house/9/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 121 md-antedatings. Poe Society dates and prints the 1844 sentence; Dictionary.com explicitly reports the 1829 Albion quotation. These antedate the verified November 1852 serialization of Bleak House chapter 28.
- CONFIRMED | resting on a misreading of how a dictionary first-citation works (a floor, not a birthday). | https://www.wordorigins.org/harmless-drudge/dates-and-dating-of-sources-and-entries | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 123 md-dictionary-misreading. Wordorigins explains: "It’s just the earliest that the particular researcher or team of researchers has been able to identify." That supports a revisable evidential bound, not a coinage date. It does not prove a particular source caused the Dickens myth.
- CONFIRMED | Old French enui (13c.), “annoyance,” from Latin odium, “hatred,” via inodiare, “to make loathsome.” It entered English as a French loan in the 1660s and was nativized by 1758 \u2014 a whole vocabulary of weariness arriving before English coined its own plain noun. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 127 ennui-annoyance. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | Old French enui (13c.), “annoyance,” from Latin odium, “hatred,” via inodiare, “to make loathsome.” It entered English as a French loan in the 1660s and was nativized by 1758 \u2014 a whole vocabulary of weariness arriving before English coined its own plain noun. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 128 ennui-hatred. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | Old French enui (13c.), “annoyance,” from Latin odium, “hatred,” via inodiare, “to make loathsome.” It entered English as a French loan in the 1660s and was nativized by 1758 \u2014 a whole vocabulary of weariness arriving before English coined its own plain noun. | https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 129 ennui-inodiare. Manually reopened Etymonline after 403. It says "1660s as a French word in English; nativized by 1758", "Old French enui ‘annoyance’ (13c.)" and, in its linked annoy entry, "Late Latin inodiare ‘make loathsome’" and "odium ‘hatred’". These support the glosses and derivation; punctuation and an added infinitive to do not make glosses false quotations.
- CONFIRMED | And whether acedia, ennui, Langeweile and boredom are even "the same feeling" is a live scholarly dispute (Spacks; Toohey; Svendsen; Goodstein) | https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208; https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/; https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3646111.html; https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/a-philosophy-of-boredom | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 131 check-scholarly-dispute-toohey. Goodstein rejects an ahistorical equation; Toohey's publisher says "a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history". Chicago identifies Spacks's Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind; Reaktion identifies Svendsen's A Philosophy of Boredom and its examination of medieval and modern manifestations. Together these support a genuine scholarly dispute; either single recorded excerpt is incomplete support.
- CONFIRMED | Nothing here may lie about anything real; that rule never bends. | git show 67088387e0:WAKE.md | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 134 shared-explanation-3. The policy is explicitly "It must never lie about anything real." The claim states a rule, not proof that every page has obeyed it.
- CONFIRMED | (added) Latin | https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/seneca.ep3.shtml | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 138 added-taedium-language. The displayed language of taedium vitae is omitted as a claim. Seneca's Latin Letter 24.22 actually contains "taedio vitae"; the language attribution is supported.
- CONFIRMED | (added) Greek → Latin | https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=acedia | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 139 added-acedia-language. American Heritage gives "Late Latin, from Greek akēdeia". This supports the omitted direction of borrowing.
- CONFIRMED | (added) (Bleak House, ch. 28.) | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1023/1023-h/1023-h.htm; https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/bleak-house/9/ | N2 checker re-read, retained with its original scope: 141 added-dickens-chapter. The quotation sits after "CHAPTER XXVIII" and before "CHAPTER XXIX". Furman dates the original part containing "Chapters 26-29" to "11-1-1852". The chapter claim was omitted from the record's claim fields, though it appeared in an excerpt locator.

## Findings

- [declined] X1 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: I re-read Etymonline, boredom (n.), and the Dictionary.com article. The former dates the state sense to 1845; the latter reports an 1829 occurrence of the word. The rough age slogan conflates the particular sense, the word form and an attestation date. Retain MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. This is a separate metadata sentence from the universal-date claim in X3.
- [declined] X2 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: The note supports ancient descriptions of related experiences and identifies a scholarly disagreement about their identity. It does not establish that the continuist interpretation is false. Retain MINOR for unqualified wording and list at tier C. This metadata sentence is separate from the sentence being fixed for X3. Decision rests on the checker note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey.
- [open note:1fafe8] X3 (WRONG): Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. Dated correction 1 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown. Repair review 2026-10-14: fixed in this layer; the withdrawn quotation remains at public/strata/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/index.html:439 and its obsolete expectation remains at research/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/verify.mjs:443. Both are outside the permitted edit scope. Open pending the board note requested in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md.
- [fixed] X4 (MINOR): Re-read Etymonline, Dictionary.com and Goodstein. Acedia and boredom are compared experiences, not successive forms of one word; the reported 1829 use also predates the Victorian period. Replaced the figurative transformation in the Open Graph sentence already being repaired for X3. Recorded here only; no separate page correction line.
- [dated] X5: Read git log at 4bec84fb04: 67d81752859 (2026-09-14) and 2e60bcb5dd1 (2026-10-01) changed this page after the recorded June date. Set dateModified to 2026-10-14 for this revision; the directed JSON-LD exception needs no separate Updated line.
- [fixed] X6 (MINOR): Re-read the lead, SPAN.all and the apparatus alongside Goodstein and Yale’s Toohey description. The sources disagree on historical identity. Qualified the exact lead comparison to make the page consistent with its stated uncertainty in X23. Recorded here only; no separate page correction line. Repair review 2026-10-14: fixed in this layer; public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js:81 still asserts the same human dullness across centuries. Goodstein and Toohey support leaving identity disputed. The shared narration is outside the permitted edit scope. Open pending the board note requested in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md. Its copy in the layer's TV narration (public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js) was corrected by the directing instance the same day.
- [fixed] X7 (WRONG): Re-read all eight WORDS entries and detailHTML: five entries lack quote fields, and the three populated fields are not all first-attestation lines. The invitation now promises source notes. Dated correction 2 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [open note:1fafe8] X8 (WRONG): Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. Dated correction 1 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown. Repair review 2026-10-14: fixed in this layer; the withdrawn quotation remains at public/strata/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/index.html:439 and its obsolete expectation remains at research/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/verify.mjs:443. Both are outside the permitted edit scope. Open pending the board note requested in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md.
- [fixed] X9 (WRONG): Re-read Seneca’s English section II and Latin II.10. Stewart has “Hence arises that weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself”; the Latin has “taedium et displicentia sui”. Project Gutenberg confirms the translator and the same passage. Restored the actual English excerpt and supplied translator, section and a direct source link; the phrase taedium vitae in other works is not denied. Dated correction 3 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [fixed] X10 (WRONG): Re-read Brenton Psalm 90:6 and KJV Psalm 91:6. Brenton has “nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day.” The displayed demon/wasteth wording matches neither. Restored Brenton’s clause and identified translator, numbering and source; the separate KJV wording in the body is unchanged under X11/X18. Dated correction 4 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [declined] X11 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: I re-read KJV Psalm 91:6 and Brenton's corresponding LXX Psalm 90:6. The quoted destruction clause is genuine KJV wording; the surrounding LXX reference leaves translation and numbering insufficiently distinguished. Retain MINOR and list at tier C: this body sentence is separate from the altered blockquote fixed in X10. Preserve the quotation's words; any later clarification should identify its version outside the quotation. X18 is the same issue.
- [fixed] X12 (WRONG): Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2) and (v.2): the state noun is dated 1766 and the verb 1768. Replaced the act-first claim while preserving the vogue-word quotation. Dated correction 5 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [fixed] X13 (WRONG): Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2): 1778 dates the thing sense, and persons are recorded by 1812. Corrected the body and its source note while preserving the existing quoted definition. Dated correction 6 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [fixed] X14 (WRONG): Re-read Etymonline bore, boredom and ennui. The state noun bore is dated 1766 and English ennui to the 1660s. Restricted 1845 to the selected boredom state sense; removed first-condition-noun claims in the card, check and facts.md, and scoped the verifier and Markdown spans to selected dates. Dated correction 7 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [fixed] X15 (WRONG): Re-read Etymonline and build.mjs. 1845 minus 1768 remains 77, but that subtraction cannot establish first naming of the condition: bore already named the state in 1766. Replaced the final naming claim and the repeated act/abstraction interpretation. Dated correction 7 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [fixed] X16 (WRONG): Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2) and (v.2): the state noun is dated 1766 and the verb 1768. Replaced the act-first claim while preserving the vogue-word quotation. Dated correction 5 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [fixed] X17 (WRONG): Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2): 1778 dates the thing sense, and persons are recorded by 1812. Corrected the body and its source note while preserving the existing quoted definition. Dated correction 6 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [declined] X18 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: I re-read KJV Psalm 91:6 and Brenton's corresponding LXX Psalm 90:6. The quoted destruction clause is genuine KJV wording; the surrounding LXX reference leaves translation and numbering insufficiently distinguished. Retain MINOR and list at tier C: this body sentence is separate from the altered blockquote fixed in X10. Preserve the quotation's words; any later clarification should identify its version outside the quotation. X11 is the same issue.
- [fixed] X19 (MINOR): Re-read SPAN.all, applyFilter, the apparatus, Goodstein and Yale’s Toohey description. Qualified the exact readout comparison as part of correcting the inconsistency in X23; no separate MINOR correction line. Recorded here only; no separate page correction line. Repair review 2026-10-14: fixed in this layer; public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js:81 still asserts the same human dullness across centuries. Goodstein and Toohey support leaving identity disputed. The shared narration is outside the permitted edit scope. Open pending the board note requested in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md. Its copy in the layer's TV narration (public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js) was corrected by the directing instance the same day.
- [declined] X20 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: I re-read 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md:45-54, 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:403-413 and build.mjs:23-34. The facts file explicitly measures the 1829 Albion date against Bleak House in 1852: 23 years. The interactive step immediately before Albion is Poe in 1844, only 15 years later. The number has a valid reference point but the wording leaves it ambiguous. Retain MINOR and list at tier C; this sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item.
- [open note:1fafe8] X22 (WRONG): Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. Dated correction 1 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown. Repair review 2026-10-14: fixed in this layer; the withdrawn quotation remains at public/strata/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/index.html:439 and its obsolete expectation remains at research/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/verify.mjs:443. Both are outside the permitted edit scope. Open pending the board note requested in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md.
- [fixed] X23 (WRONG): Re-read lead, readout, dek and apparatus. The page directly asserted sameness while disclaiming it. The direct comparisons now leave historical identity open; the unchanged apparatus disclaimer is now consistent with them. This correction does not decide between Goodstein and Toohey. Dated correction 8 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown. Repair review 2026-10-14: fixed in this layer; public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js:81 still asserts the same human dullness across centuries. Goodstein and Toohey support leaving identity disputed. The shared narration is outside the permitted edit scope. Open pending the board note requested in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md. Its copy in the layer's TV narration (public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js) was corrected by the directing instance the same day.
- [fixed] X24 (WRONG): Read the full Dictionary.com article: it reports an August 8, 1829 Albion use and discusses Dickens’s readership, but mentions neither OED nor Oxford. Removed the false source-list attribution and the unsupported quotation in facts.md, keeping the article as a secondary source for 1829. Dated correction 9 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown.
- [declined] X26 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: The checker note distinguishes genuine forms, later additions and unattested original-version claims in the linked layer, and reports its explicit warning that absent attestation does not prove non-existence. Accept MINOR for the compressed absolute wording and list at tier C. This sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item. X27 is the same wording copied into navigation. No independent re-read of the neighbouring layer was needed under rule 4.
- [declined] X27 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: Same issue as X26: the checker note says the linked layer distinguishes genuine forms, additions and unattested originals, whereas this navigation description compresses that into an absolute. Retain MINOR and list at tier C; no WRONG item requires changing this sentence. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of the neighbouring layer.
- [declined] X28 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: The note supports ancient descriptions of related experiences while identifying competing interpretations of their identity. That warrants qualification, not a conclusion that the continuist interpretation has been disproved. Retain MINOR and list at tier C. This ancient-names sentence is separate from the following dek sentence fixed for X29. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey.
- [open note:1fafe8] X29 (WRONG): Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. Dated correction 1 below, mirrored in HTML and Markdown. Repair review 2026-10-14: fixed in this layer; the withdrawn quotation remains at public/strata/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/index.html:439 and its obsolete expectation remains at research/the-date-that-can-only-say-no/verify.mjs:443. Both are outside the permitted edit scope. Open pending the board note requested in research/assay-line/cited-1014/boredom-word/repair-report.md.
- [declined] X30 (MINOR, listed): Directing triage reason: The note supports descriptions of related ancient states but identifies an unresolved disagreement about treating them as one unchanged feeling. Retain MINOR for the unqualified comparison and list at tier C. This Markdown body sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey.

## Triage outcomes

| Item | Outcome | Evidence or reason |
|---|---|---|
| X1 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read Etymonline, boredom (n.), and the Dictionary.com article. The former dates the state sense to 1845; the latter reports an 1829 occurrence of the word. The rough age slogan conflates the particular sense, the word form and an attestation date. Retain MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. This is a separate metadata sentence from the universal-date claim in X3. |
| X2 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The note supports ancient descriptions of related experiences and identifies a scholarly disagreement about their identity. It does not establish that the continuist interpretation is false. Retain MINOR for unqualified wording and list at tier C. This metadata sentence is separate from the sentence being fixed for X3. Decision rests on the checker note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey. |
| X3 | FIXED LOCALLY; OPEN ELSEWHERE | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. |
| X4 | FIXED | Re-read Etymonline, Dictionary.com and Goodstein. Acedia and boredom are compared experiences, not successive forms of one word; the reported 1829 use also predates the Victorian period. Replaced the figurative transformation in the Open Graph sentence already being repaired for X3. |
| X5 | FIXED | Read git log at 4bec84fb04: 67d81752859 (2026-09-14) and 2e60bcb5dd1 (2026-10-01) changed this page after the recorded June date. Set dateModified to 2026-10-14 for this revision; the directed JSON-LD exception needs no separate Updated line. |
| X6 | FIXED LOCALLY; OPEN ELSEWHERE | Re-read the lead, SPAN.all and the apparatus alongside Goodstein and Yale’s Toohey description. The sources disagree on historical identity. Qualified the exact lead comparison to make the page consistent with its stated uncertainty in X23. |
| X7 | FIXED | Re-read all eight WORDS entries and detailHTML: five entries lack quote fields, and the three populated fields are not all first-attestation lines. The invitation now promises source notes. |
| X8 | FIXED LOCALLY; OPEN ELSEWHERE | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. |
| X9 | FIXED | Re-read Seneca’s English section II and Latin II.10. Stewart has “Hence arises that weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself”; the Latin has “taedium et displicentia sui”. Project Gutenberg confirms the translator and the same passage. Restored the actual English excerpt and supplied translator, section and a direct source link; the phrase taedium vitae in other works is not denied. |
| X10 | FIXED | Re-read Brenton Psalm 90:6 and KJV Psalm 91:6. Brenton has “nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day.” The displayed demon/wasteth wording matches neither. Restored Brenton’s clause and identified translator, numbering and source; the separate KJV wording in the body is unchanged under X11/X18. |
| X11 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read KJV Psalm 91:6 and Brenton's corresponding LXX Psalm 90:6. The quoted destruction clause is genuine KJV wording; the surrounding LXX reference leaves translation and numbering insufficiently distinguished. Retain MINOR and list at tier C: this body sentence is separate from the altered blockquote fixed in X10. Preserve the quotation's words; any later clarification should identify its version outside the quotation. X18 is the same issue. |
| X12 | FIXED | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2) and (v.2): the state noun is dated 1766 and the verb 1768. Replaced the act-first claim while preserving the vogue-word quotation. |
| X13 | FIXED | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2): 1778 dates the thing sense, and persons are recorded by 1812. Corrected the body and its source note while preserving the existing quoted definition. |
| X14 | FIXED | Re-read Etymonline bore, boredom and ennui. The state noun bore is dated 1766 and English ennui to the 1660s. Restricted 1845 to the selected boredom state sense; removed first-condition-noun claims in the card, check and facts.md, and scoped the verifier and Markdown spans to selected dates. |
| X15 | FIXED | Re-read Etymonline and build.mjs. 1845 minus 1768 remains 77, but that subtraction cannot establish first naming of the condition: bore already named the state in 1766. Replaced the final naming claim and the repeated act/abstraction interpretation. |
| X16 | FIXED | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2) and (v.2): the state noun is dated 1766 and the verb 1768. Replaced the act-first claim while preserving the vogue-word quotation. |
| X17 | FIXED | Re-read Etymonline bore (n.2): 1778 dates the thing sense, and persons are recorded by 1812. Corrected the body and its source note while preserving the existing quoted definition. |
| X18 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read KJV Psalm 91:6 and Brenton's corresponding LXX Psalm 90:6. The quoted destruction clause is genuine KJV wording; the surrounding LXX reference leaves translation and numbering insufficiently distinguished. Retain MINOR and list at tier C: this body sentence is separate from the altered blockquote fixed in X10. Preserve the quotation's words; any later clarification should identify its version outside the quotation. X11 is the same issue. |
| X19 | FIXED LOCALLY; OPEN ELSEWHERE | Re-read SPAN.all, applyFilter, the apparatus, Goodstein and Yale’s Toohey description. Qualified the exact readout comparison as part of correcting the inconsistency in X23; no separate MINOR correction line. |
| X20 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: I re-read 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md:45-54, 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:403-413 and build.mjs:23-34. The facts file explicitly measures the 1829 Albion date against Bleak House in 1852: 23 years. The interactive step immediately before Albion is Poe in 1844, only 15 years later. The number has a valid reference point but the wording leaves it ambiguous. Retain MINOR and list at tier C; this sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item. |
| X21 | REJECTED with evidence | REJECTED with evidence. Directing triage reason: I re-read 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:192-193 and research/boredom-word/build.mjs:11-46. The page names the correct repository file in a plain text span; the program computes the selected differences and prints the stated values through its assertions. It does not advertise an HTTP URL at /research/boredom-word/build.mjs. A 404 at that inferred URL does not contradict the claim. The checker also reports a working public /checks copy. Reject this access-based finding: a download link would be useful, but the named path and stated computation are accurate. I inspected code without running a build. The fixer also read the named local file and the plain-text repository reference on the page. |
| X22 | FIXED LOCALLY; OPEN ELSEWHERE | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. |
| X23 | FIXED LOCALLY; OPEN ELSEWHERE | Re-read lead, readout, dek and apparatus. The page directly asserted sameness while disclaiming it. The direct comparisons now leave historical identity open; the unchanged apparatus disclaimer is now consistent with them. This correction does not decide between Goodstein and Toohey. |
| X24 | FIXED | Read the full Dictionary.com article: it reports an August 8, 1829 Albion use and discusses Dickens’s readership, but mentions neither OED nor Oxford. Removed the false source-list attribution and the unsupported quotation in facts.md, keeping the article as a secondary source for 1829. |
| X25 | REJECTED with evidence | REJECTED with evidence. Directing triage reason: I re-read 67088387e0:public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:224 and the complete 67088387e0:research/boredom-word/facts.md. The named repository file exists and contains source references, the dated table, arithmetic assumptions and a Named uncertainties section. The page presents its repository path as plain text, not as either HTTP URL the checker tried. Those 404 responses do not disprove the stated location. Reject the missing-public-route finding; this does not endorse every claim in facts.md, whose substantive errors are covered by the accepted findings. The fixer also read the named local file and the plain-text repository reference on the page. |
| X26 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The checker note distinguishes genuine forms, later additions and unattested original-version claims in the linked layer, and reports its explicit warning that absent attestation does not prove non-existence. Accept MINOR for the compressed absolute wording and list at tier C. This sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item. X27 is the same wording copied into navigation. No independent re-read of the neighbouring layer was needed under rule 4. |
| X27 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: Same issue as X26: the checker note says the linked layer distinguishes genuine forms, additions and unattested originals, whereas this navigation description compresses that into an absolute. Retain MINOR and list at tier C; no WRONG item requires changing this sentence. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of the neighbouring layer. |
| X28 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The note supports ancient descriptions of related experiences while identifying competing interpretations of their identity. That warrants qualification, not a conclusion that the continuist interpretation has been disproved. Retain MINOR and list at tier C. This ancient-names sentence is separate from the following dek sentence fixed for X29. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey. |
| X29 | FIXED LOCALLY; OPEN ELSEWHERE | Re-read the page and facts.md: ~50 CE is a century-level estimate and 1514 dates an engraving. The Met independently dates Melencolia I to 1514. Updated metadata, JSON-LD, lead, check, dek, source notes and verifier comments to distinguish attestations, eras and artwork dates. |
| X30 | NOT FIXED | NOT FIXED. Directing triage reason: The note supports descriptions of related ancient states but identifies an unresolved disagreement about treating them as one unchanged feeling. Retain MINOR for the unqualified comparison and list at tier C. This Markdown body sentence is not otherwise being fixed for a WRONG item. Decision rests on the note, without an independent re-read of Goodstein or Toohey. |

## Sources re-read for the edits

- [Etymonline, bore](https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore), [boredom](https://www.etymonline.com/word/boredom), and [ennui](https://www.etymonline.com/word/ennui): the replacement figures are 1766 for the state noun and by 1812 for the person noun. The selected 1768, 1778, 1845 and 1660s dates retain their respective senses.
- [Seneca, Of Peace of Mind, section II](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind) and [Latin II.10](https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.tranq.shtml): compared the restored English excerpt with the Latin phrase. [Project Gutenberg’s Stewart edition](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64576/pg64576-images.html) verifies the translator and the same passage.
- [Brenton’s Septuagint, Psalm 90:6](https://biblehub.com/sep/psalms/91.htm) and [KJV Psalm 91:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2091%3A6&version=KJV): the blockquote now follows Brenton; the separately listed KJV body wording is preserved.
- [Goodstein](https://iai.tv/articles/the-history-and-politics-of-boredom-auid-1208) and [Yale’s description of Toohey](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181845/boredom/): support leaving identity across historical experiences disputed.
- [Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom): the complete article reports the 1829 Albion use but does not mention OED or Oxford. No original Albion page was inspected.
- [The Met’s Melencolia I catalogue](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360018): 1514 is the engraving’s date. The Library of Congress URL returned an internal error; the Met provided the independent check.
- [Poe Society, December 1844 text](https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thingma.htm): re-read the boredom sentence and publication label while checking the antedating evidence.
- Local authored sources: public/strata/boredom-word/index.html, src/content/strata/boredom-word.md, research/boredom-word/facts.md and research/boredom-word/build.mjs. The build script does no file writes or generation; the HTML is authored directly. The read-only git log at 4bec84fb04 confirms later page edits on 2026-09-14 and 2026-10-01.

## Exact dated lines

These nine lines appear under Corrections near the end of the HTML page. There is no aw-checkkind placard in this layer. Each line is mirrored at the end of the Markdown body with the prefix `*Corrected 2026-10-14:*`. No separate line was added for MINOR items or for the dateModified exception.

1. X3, X8, X22, X29:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The page called every timeline date an earliest-known attestation. The timeline mixes attestation dates, approximate historical eras, and the 1514 date of Dürer’s Melencolia I engraving; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

2. X7:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The page promised a first-use quotation for every marker. The cards provide source notes and selected quotations, not a first-use line for every marker; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

3. X9:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The Seneca card presented “a weariness and loathing of life” as a quotation. Aubrey Stewart’s translation of Of Peace of Mind, section II, reads “Hence arises that weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself”; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

4. X10:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The acedia card quoted “the demon that wasteth at noonday” as Psalm 90:6 in the Septuagint. Brenton’s translation has “the evil spirit at noon-day”; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

5. X12, X16:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The page said the act of boring was named first. Etymonline records bore as a noun for the state in 1766, before its 1768 verb date; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

6. X13, X17:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The page assigned 1778 to bore for a thing or a person. Etymonline gives 1778 for the thing sense and “by 1812” for the person sense; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

7. X14, X15:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The page said English first got a noun for the condition in 1845. Etymonline dates this sense of boredom to 1845, but records the state noun bore in 1766 and English ennui in the 1660s; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

8. X23:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The page said it did not declare the historical experiences identical while its lead and readout called them the same dullness. Those comparisons now leave the identity question open, as the apparatus does; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

9. X24:

   Corrected 2026-10-14: The page attributed an OED-origin explanation of the Dickens myth to Dictionary.com. The cited article reports an 1829 use of boredom in The Albion and does not mention the OED; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

## Edit report

Locations below use final source line numbers; the before/after text is the exact replaced span, with historical U+2014 encoded as `\u2014`. Each change is confined to this layer.

### 1. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:8

Before:

```text
An operable attestation timeline, with every date a sourced 'earliest-known' floor, not a birthday.
```

After:

```text
An operable timeline of attestations, approximate eras, and an engraving date; none is a coinage claim.
```

### 2. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:20

Before:

```text
An operable timeline of how a 4th-century demon became a Victorian noun: every date a sourced floor, not a birthday.
```

After:

```text
An operable timeline comparing the monks' acedia with later words for boredom: attestations, approximate eras, and an engraving date, with no coinage claimed.
```

### 3. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:31

Before:

```text
An operable attestation timeline \u2014 every date a sourced earliest-known floor, not a coinage.
```

After:

```text
An operable timeline of attestations, approximate eras, and an engraving date, with no coinage claimed.
```

### 4. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:31

Before:

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"dateModified":"2026-06-26"
```

After:

```text
"dateModified":"2026-10-14"
```

### 5. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:146

Before:

```text
      feeling it names had names a thousand years before him. Here is the same human dullness travelling
      under different words across nineteen centuries. Select any marker; read the line it first appears in.
      Every date is an <em>earliest-known</em> floor \u2014 never a birthday.</p>
```

After:

```text
      feeling it names had names a thousand years before him. Here are names for related experiences
      across nineteen centuries; whether they name the same feeling remains disputed.
      Select any marker; read its source notes. The dates mix attestations, approximate eras,
      and the date of an engraving; none establishes a word’s birthday.</p>
```

### 6. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:193

Before:

```text
      <p>Two gaps, recomputed in <span class="mono">research/boredom-word/build.mjs</span> from the
        dated attestations (run it; it prints these):</p>
```

After:

```text
      <p>Two gaps, recomputed in <span class="mono">research/boredom-word/build.mjs</span> from the
        selected attestation dates and era estimates (run it; it prints these):</p>
```

### 7. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:195

Before:

```text
      <p>• The verb <em>bore</em> ("to weary") is attested <b>1768</b>; the noun <em>boredom</em>,
        <b>1845</b> \u2014 the abstraction trailed the act by <b>77 years</b>.<br>
        • The feeling, under names, runs back to <em>taedium vitae</em> in Roman antiquity (~50 CE):
        the noun "boredom" arrives roughly <b>1,795 years</b> later (≈1,470 years after <em>acedia</em>, the
        4th-century monks' "noonday demon").</p>
```

After:

```text
      <p>• The verb <em>bore</em> ("to weary") is attested <b>1768</b>; Etymonline dates the state sense
        of <em>boredom</em> to <b>1845</b>: <b>77 years</b> between those dates. English already had
        <em>bore</em> as a state noun in <b>1766</b>.<br>
        • The Roman-era marker for <em>taedium vitae</em> (~50 CE) sits roughly <b>1,795 years</b>
        before that 1845 sense-date (≈1,470 years from the ~375 CE marker for <em>acedia</em>, the
        4th-century monks' "noonday demon"). These are spans between selected markers.</p>
```

### 8. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:201

Before:

```text
      <p class="note">Honest about its own thesis: every year above is an <em>earliest-known</em> floor,
        not a coinage. The "~50 CE" for <em>taedium vitae</em> is the era Seneca wrote, not the phrase's
        first attestation \u2014 it fixes an order of magnitude, not a precise date. And whether <em>acedia</em>,
```

After:

```text
      <p class="note">Honest about its own thesis: the dates mix attestations, era estimates,
        and Dürer’s 1514 engraving. The "~50 CE" for <em>taedium vitae</em> is the era Seneca wrote,
        not the phrase's first attestation; ~375 CE likewise marks the era of the monks’ <em>acedia</em>.
        These estimates fix an order of magnitude, not precise dates. And whether <em>acedia</em>,
```

### 9. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:225

Before:

```text
        <li>Dictionary.com \u2014 <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/charles-dickens-boredom/">"You Didn't Invent That: Charles Dickens and Boredom"</a> (the 1829 antedating; the OED-as-myth-source point).</li>
```

After:

```text
        <li>Dictionary.com: <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom">"You Didn't Invent That: Charles Dickens and Boredom"</a> (the reported 1829 antedating).</li>
```

### 10. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:229

Before:

```text
      <p><a href="/">← return to the ground</a></p>
```

After:

```text
      <section class="note" aria-labelledby="corrections">
        <h2 id="corrections">Corrections</h2>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The page called every timeline date an earliest-known attestation. The timeline mixes attestation dates, approximate historical eras, and the 1514 date of Dürer’s Melencolia I engraving; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The page promised a first-use quotation for every marker. The cards provide source notes and selected quotations, not a first-use line for every marker; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The Seneca card presented “a weariness and loathing of life” as a quotation. Aubrey Stewart’s translation of Of Peace of Mind, section II, reads “Hence arises that weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself”; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The acedia card quoted “the demon that wasteth at noonday” as Psalm 90:6 in the Septuagint. Brenton’s translation has “the evil spirit at noon-day”; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The page said the act of boring was named first. Etymonline records bore as a noun for the state in 1766, before its 1768 verb date; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The page assigned 1778 to bore for a thing or a person. Etymonline gives 1778 for the thing sense and “by 1812” for the person sense; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The page said English first got a noun for the condition in 1845. Etymonline dates this sense of boredom to 1845, but records the state noun bore in 1766 and English ennui in the 1660s; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The page said it did not declare the historical experiences identical while its lead and readout called them the same dullness. Those comparisons now leave the identity question open, as the apparatus does; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
        <p>Corrected 2026-10-14: The page attributed an OED-origin explanation of the Dickens myth to Dictionary.com. The cited article reports an 1829 use of boredom in The Albion and does not mention the OED; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.</p>
      </section>
      <p><a href="/">← return to the ground</a></p>
```

### 11. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:294

Before:

```text
    // Each entry: an earliest-known floor (or, for taedium, an era estimate \u2014 labelled).
```

After:

```text
    // Entries mix attestation dates, approximate eras, and an engraving date.
```

### 12. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:298

Before:

```text
        quote:'“…taedium vitae \u2014 a weariness and loathing of life.”',
```

After:

```text
        quote:'“Hence arises that weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself…”',
```

### 13. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:300

Before:

```text
        src:'Seneca, <em>De Tranquillitate Animi</em>.' },
```

After:

```text
        src:'Seneca, <em>De Tranquillitate Animi</em>, II.10; <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind#II._[Seneca]">Of Peace of Mind</a>, section II, translated by Aubrey Stewart.' },
```

### 14. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:303

Before:

```text
        quote:'“…the demon that wasteth at noonday.” (Psalm 90:6, Septuagint)',
```

After:

```text
        quote:'“…nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day.” (Psalm 90:6, Septuagint; Brenton translation)',
```

### 15. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:305

Before:

```text
        src:'Evagrius Ponticus; John Cassian. Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia">Acedia</a>.' },
```

After:

```text
        src:'Evagrius Ponticus; John Cassian. Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia">Acedia</a>. Quotation: <a href="https://biblehub.com/sep/psalms/91.htm">Brenton’s Septuagint, Psalm 90:6</a> (91:6 in Hebrew numbering).' },
```

### 16. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:321

Before:

```text
        body:'The English verb appears \u2014 “a vogue word c. 1780–81,” Etymonline notes, the slang of a particular fashionable moment. The <em>act</em> of boring is named first.',
```

After:

```text
        body:'The English verb appears; “a vogue word c. 1780–81,” Etymonline notes, the slang of a particular fashionable moment. Its 1768 date follows the noun <em>bore</em> for the state, recorded in 1766.',
```

### 17. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:325

Before:

```text
        body:'A decade later the <em>thing</em> or person that bores gets its noun \u2014 defined, tellingly, with the older French loanword: “a thing which causes ennui or annoyance by dullness.”',
```

After:

```text
        body:'A decade later, in 1778, <em>bore</em> is recorded for a <em>thing</em> that bores, defined with the older French loanword: “a thing which causes ennui or annoyance by dullness.” Etymonline records the person sense by 1812.',
```

### 18. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:326

Before:

```text
        src:'Etymonline, <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore">bore</a> (n.): 1778.' },
```

After:

```text
        src:'Etymonline, <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/bore">bore</a> (n.): thing, 1778; person, by 1812.' },
```

### 19. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:329

Before:

```text
        body:'Only now \u2014 built from the verb with the suffix <em>-dom</em> \u2014 does English get an abstract noun for the <em>condition</em>. Etymonline dates it 1845; the OED’s first <em>literary</em> citation is Dickens, <em>Bleak House</em> (1852–3). The state finally has a name of its own, seventy-odd years after the verb.',
```

After:

```text
        body:'Built from <em>bore</em> with the suffix <em>-dom</em>, <em>boredom</em> names the <em>condition</em>. Etymonline dates this sense to 1845; the OED’s first <em>literary</em> citation is Dickens, <em>Bleak House</em> (1852–3). That 1845 sense-date is 77 years after the verb’s 1768 attestation; English already had condition nouns, including <em>bore</em> (1766) and <em>ennui</em> (1660s).',
```

### 20. public/strata/boredom-word/index.html:396

Before:

```text
      all:  'The feeling stretches across nineteen centuries; its <b>words</b> bunch into the last three. Same dullness, many names.',
```

After:

```text
      all:  'The selected markers stretch across nineteen centuries; the later <b>words</b> bunch into the last three. Related experiences, many names; whether they are the same feeling remains disputed.',
```

### 21. src/content/strata/boredom-word.md:4

Before:

```text
An operable attestation timeline carries the same human dullness across nineteen centuries, and every date is shown as an earliest-known floor, never a birthday.
```

After:

```text
An operable timeline compares related experiences across nineteen centuries without settling whether they are the same feeling. Its dates mix attestations, approximate eras, and an engraving date; none establishes a word’s birthday.
```

### 22. src/content/strata/boredom-word.md:31

Before:

```text
The two recomputed spans \u2014 verb→noun = 77 years; feeling→English-noun ≈ 1,795 years \u2014
are checked in `research/boredom-word/build.mjs`; sources and named uncertainties
```

After:

```text
The two recomputed spans compare selected dates: verb *bore* (1768) to the
*boredom* state sense (1845) = 77 years; the Roman-era marker (~50 CE) to that
1845 sense-date ≈ 1,795 years. They are checked in `research/boredom-word/build.mjs`;
sources and named uncertainties
```

### 23. src/content/strata/boredom-word.md:36

Before:

```text
in `research/boredom-word/facts.md`.

```

After:

```text
in `research/boredom-word/facts.md`.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The page called every timeline date an earliest-known attestation. The timeline mixes attestation dates, approximate historical eras, and the 1514 date of Dürer’s Melencolia I engraving; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The page promised a first-use quotation for every marker. The cards provide source notes and selected quotations, not a first-use line for every marker; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The Seneca card presented “a weariness and loathing of life” as a quotation. Aubrey Stewart’s translation of Of Peace of Mind, section II, reads “Hence arises that weariness and dissatisfaction with oneself”; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The acedia card quoted “the demon that wasteth at noonday” as Psalm 90:6 in the Septuagint. Brenton’s translation has “the evil spirit at noon-day”; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The page said the act of boring was named first. Etymonline records bore as a noun for the state in 1766, before its 1768 verb date; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The page assigned 1778 to bore for a thing or a person. Etymonline gives 1778 for the thing sense and “by 1812” for the person sense; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The page said English first got a noun for the condition in 1845. Etymonline dates this sense of boredom to 1845, but records the state noun bore in 1766 and English ennui in the 1660s; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The page said it did not declare the historical experiences identical while its lead and readout called them the same dullness. Those comparisons now leave the identity question open, as the apparatus does; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

*Corrected 2026-10-14:* The page attributed an OED-origin explanation of the Dickens myth to Dictionary.com. The cited article reports an 1829 use of boredom in The Albion and does not mention the OED; found by the assay line, 2026-10-14.

```

### 24. research/boredom-word/facts.md:22

Before:

```text
| **bore** (verb) |
```

After:

```text
| **bore** (state noun) | state of boredom | **1766** | Etymonline, *bore* (n.2) |
| **bore** (verb) |
```

### 25. research/boredom-word/facts.md:25

Before:

```text
| **boreism** |
```

After:

```text
| **bore** (person noun) | a person who causes boredom | **by 1812** | Etymonline, *bore* (n.2) |
| **boreism** |
```

### 26. research/boredom-word/facts.md:36

Before:

```text
- **The key internal gap:** the *verb* "bore" (1768) predates the *noun* "boredom" (1845) by
  roughly **77 years** \u2014 the abstraction came long after the act. (Computed in `build.mjs`.)
```

After:

```text
- **The key internal gap:** Etymonline’s *bore* verb date (1768) and *boredom* state-sense
  date (1845) are **77 years** apart. This is a gap between selected attestations: English
  already had the state noun *bore* (1766) and *ennui* (1660s). (Computed in `build.mjs`.)
```

### 27. research/boredom-word/facts.md:64

Before:

```text
  (Dictionary.com makes exactly this point: *"the origin of the myth is likely the OED… the OED
  only includes the information which has been submitted by contributors."*)
```

After:

```text
  (Dictionary.com reports the 1829 use in *The Albion*. It does not mention the OED or
  attribute the myth to it: <https://www.dictionary.com/articles/charles-dickens-boredom>.)
```

### 28. research/boredom-word/facts.md:79

Before:

```text
| **taedium vitae** | Latin | Roman antiquity (1st c. CE) | "weariness of life" | Seneca, *De Tranquillitate Animi*; the phrase recurs in Roman moral writing |
```

After:

```text
| **taedium vitae** | Latin | Roman antiquity (1st c. CE) | "weariness of life" | Seneca, *De Tranquillitate Animi*, II.10 describes a related state as *taedium et displicentia sui*; the card quotes Aubrey Stewart’s *Of Peace of Mind*, section II, <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Peace_of_Mind> |
```

### 29. research/boredom-word/facts.md:95

Before:

```text
- **gap (act → abstraction):** verb *bore* 1768 → noun *boredom* 1845 = **77 years**.
- **gap (feeling → English word):** *taedium vitae* (Seneca, ~50 CE, taken as 50) → *boredom* the
  English noun (1845) ≈ **~1,795 years** the feeling had names before the English noun existed.
  (Using *acedia* ~375 CE as the anchor instead: ≈ **1,470 years**.) Both anchors shown; the point
  is the order of magnitude, not a false precision \u2014 the "~50 CE" for *taedium vitae* is a
  century-level estimate of when Seneca wrote, not a coinage date, and is labelled as such.
```

After:

```text
- **gap (selected attestations):** verb *bore* 1768 → *boredom* state sense 1845 = **77 years**.
- **gap (era estimate → selected sense-date):** *taedium vitae* (Seneca’s era, ~50 CE,
  taken as 50) → *boredom* state sense (1845) ≈ **1,795 years**.
  (Using *acedia* ~375 CE as the anchor instead: ≈ **1,470 years**.) Both anchors are era
  estimates, used for an order of magnitude. These differences do not date the first
  naming of a feeling or the coinage of a word.
```

### 30. research/boredom-word/facts.md:104

Before:

```text
1. **Exact "first use" of any word is unknowable** \u2014 every date here is an *earliest known
   attestation*, a floor that future antedating can lower. This is the page's whole thesis, applied
   to its own dates too.
```

After:

```text
1. **Attestations are not coinages.** The timeline mixes sourced attestation dates,
   approximate eras for Seneca and the monks’ *acedia*, and the 1514 date of Dürer’s
   *Melencolia I* engraving. Only the attestation dates are earliest-found uses in the cited sources.
```

### 31. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:7

Before:

```text
// Dates are EARLIEST-KNOWN-ATTESTATION floors (or, for taedium vitae, a century-level
// estimate of when Seneca wrote \u2014 labelled as such). The whole point of the piece is
// that these are floors, not birthdays; we compute spans only to fix an order of magnitude.
```

After:

```text
// Dates mix attestations, approximate eras for Seneca and acedia, and an engraving
// date for Melencolia I. These are selected markers, not word birthdays or dates
// when a feeling first received a name; the era-based spans fix an order of magnitude.
```

### 32. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:18

Before:

```text
note: 'bore (noun)'
```

After:

```text
note: 'bore (noun, thing sense)'
```

### 33. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:31

Before:

```text
const gapActAbstraction =
```

After:

```text
const gapBoreVerbBoredom =
```

### 34. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:43

Before:

```text
gapActAbstraction, 77
```

After:

```text
gapBoreVerbBoredom, 77
```

### 35. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:42

Before:

```text
console.log('boredom-word \u2014 recomputed spans (years):\n');
```

After:

```text
console.log('boredom-word: recomputed spans between selected dates (years):\n');
```

### 36. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:43

Before:

```text
assert('verb "bore" (1768) → noun "boredom" (1845)'
```

After:

```text
assert('verb "bore" (1768) → "boredom" state sense (1845)'
```

### 37. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:44

Before:

```text
assert('taedium vitae (~50 CE) → English noun (1845)'
```

After:

```text
assert('Seneca era marker (~50 CE) → "boredom" state sense (1845)'
```

### 38. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:45

Before:

```text
assert('acedia (~375 CE) → English noun (1845)'
```

After:

```text
assert('acedia era marker (~375 CE) → "boredom" state sense (1845)'
```

### 39. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:48

Before:

```text
console.log('\nThe word-cluster (everything reaching the modern noun) spans',
```

After:

```text
console.log('\nThe selected word markers span',
```

### 40. research/boredom-word/build.mjs:50

Before:

```text
console.log('the feeling, named, reaches back ~' + spanTaedium + ' years before that noun.');
```

After:

```text
console.log('the Seneca era marker sits ~' + spanTaedium + ' years before the selected boredom sense-date.');
```

### 41. assay/records/boredom-word.md:1

Before: no record for this layer.

After: this claims record, with 104 claim lines, 28 findings, every triage outcome, the nine exact dated lines, this before/after edit report, verification results and unfinished scope.

### 42. public/checks/research/boredom-word/build.mjs:1

Before: the published verifier was an exact copy of the old source, 2,711 bytes.

```text
#!/usr/bin/env node
// Recompute the headline spans for the boredom-word stratum from the dated entries
// in facts.md. The page displays exactly these numbers; this script is the check.
//
//   node research/boredom-word/build.mjs
//
// Dates are EARLIEST-KNOWN-ATTESTATION floors (or, for taedium vitae, a century-level
// estimate of when Seneca wrote \u2014 labelled as such). The whole point of the piece is
// that these are floors, not birthdays; we compute spans only to fix an order of magnitude.

const WORDS = [
  { id: 'taedium',   date: 50,   kind: 'feeling', note: 'taedium vitae \u2014 Seneca, ~1st c. CE (era estimate)' },
  { id: 'acedia',    date: 375,  kind: 'feeling', note: 'acedia \u2014 Evagrius Ponticus, 4th c. CE' },
  { id: 'melancholy',date: 1514, kind: 'feeling', note: 'Dürer, Melencolia I' },
  { id: 'langeweile',date: 1537, kind: 'word',    note: 'Langeweile \u2014 first documented 1537' },
  { id: 'ennui',     date: 1660, kind: 'word',    note: 'ennui into English, 1660s' },
  { id: 'bore-v',    date: 1768, kind: 'word',    note: 'bore (verb), "to weary"' },
  { id: 'bore-n',    date: 1778, kind: 'word',    note: 'bore (noun)' },
  { id: 'boredom',   date: 1845, kind: 'word',    note: "boredom (noun) \u2014 Etymonline's date" },
];

// Successive antedatings of the English noun "boredom" (the floor being lowered):
const ATTEST = [
  { year: 1852, src: 'Dickens, Bleak House' },
  { year: 1844, src: 'Poe, Southern Literary Messenger' },
  { year: 1829, src: 'The Albion (per Dictionary.com)' },
];

const get = id => WORDS.find(w => w.id === id).date;

const gapActAbstraction = get('boredom') - get('bore-v');        // 1845 - 1768
const spanTaedium = get('boredom') - get('taedium');             // 1845 - 50
const spanAcedia = get('boredom') - get('acedia');               // 1845 - 375
const oedToFloor = ATTEST[0].year - ATTEST[ATTEST.length - 1].year; // 1852 - 1829

const assert = (label, got, want) => {
  const ok = got === want;
  console.log(`${ok ? 'OK ' : 'XX '} ${label} = ${got}${ok ? '' : `  (expected ${want})`}`);
  if (!ok) process.exitCode = 1;
};

console.log('boredom-word \u2014 recomputed spans (years):\n');
assert('verb "bore" (1768) → noun "boredom" (1845)', gapActAbstraction, 77);
assert('taedium vitae (~50 CE) → English noun (1845)', spanTaedium, 1795);
assert('acedia (~375 CE) → English noun (1845)', spanAcedia, 1470);
assert('OED first citation (1852) above its lowest antedating (1829)', oedToFloor, 23);

console.log('\nThe word-cluster (everything reaching the modern noun) spans',
  get('boredom') - get('langeweile'), 'years (1537→1845);');
console.log('the feeling, named, reaches back ~' + spanTaedium + ' years before that noun.');
```

After: regenerated as an exact copy of the corrected authored verifier, 2,758 bytes, using the publisher’s publication screen and verbatim-copy rule for this single layer. No authored changes were made to the output independently of its source.

```text
#!/usr/bin/env node
// Recompute the headline spans for the boredom-word stratum from the dated entries
// in facts.md. The page displays exactly these numbers; this script is the check.
//
//   node research/boredom-word/build.mjs
//
// Dates mix attestations, approximate eras for Seneca and acedia, and an engraving
// date for Melencolia I. These are selected markers, not word birthdays or dates
// when a feeling first received a name; the era-based spans fix an order of magnitude.

const WORDS = [
  { id: 'taedium',   date: 50,   kind: 'feeling', note: 'taedium vitae \u2014 Seneca, ~1st c. CE (era estimate)' },
  { id: 'acedia',    date: 375,  kind: 'feeling', note: 'acedia \u2014 Evagrius Ponticus, 4th c. CE' },
  { id: 'melancholy',date: 1514, kind: 'feeling', note: 'Dürer, Melencolia I' },
  { id: 'langeweile',date: 1537, kind: 'word',    note: 'Langeweile \u2014 first documented 1537' },
  { id: 'ennui',     date: 1660, kind: 'word',    note: 'ennui into English, 1660s' },
  { id: 'bore-v',    date: 1768, kind: 'word',    note: 'bore (verb), "to weary"' },
  { id: 'bore-n',    date: 1778, kind: 'word',    note: 'bore (noun, thing sense)' },
  { id: 'boredom',   date: 1845, kind: 'word',    note: "boredom (noun) \u2014 Etymonline's date" },
];

// Successive antedatings of the English noun "boredom" (the floor being lowered):
const ATTEST = [
  { year: 1852, src: 'Dickens, Bleak House' },
  { year: 1844, src: 'Poe, Southern Literary Messenger' },
  { year: 1829, src: 'The Albion (per Dictionary.com)' },
];

const get = id => WORDS.find(w => w.id === id).date;

const gapBoreVerbBoredom = get('boredom') - get('bore-v');        // 1845 - 1768
const spanTaedium = get('boredom') - get('taedium');             // 1845 - 50
const spanAcedia = get('boredom') - get('acedia');               // 1845 - 375
const oedToFloor = ATTEST[0].year - ATTEST[ATTEST.length - 1].year; // 1852 - 1829

const assert = (label, got, want) => {
  const ok = got === want;
  console.log(`${ok ? 'OK ' : 'XX '} ${label} = ${got}${ok ? '' : `  (expected ${want})`}`);
  if (!ok) process.exitCode = 1;
};

console.log('boredom-word: recomputed spans between selected dates (years):\n');
assert('verb "bore" (1768) → "boredom" state sense (1845)', gapBoreVerbBoredom, 77);
assert('Seneca era marker (~50 CE) → "boredom" state sense (1845)', spanTaedium, 1795);
assert('acedia era marker (~375 CE) → "boredom" state sense (1845)', spanAcedia, 1470);
assert('OED first citation (1852) above its lowest antedating (1829)', oedToFloor, 23);

console.log('\nThe selected word markers span',
  get('boredom') - get('langeweile'), 'years (1537→1845);');
console.log('the Seneca era marker sits ~' + spanTaedium + ' years before the selected boredom sense-date.');
```

## Commands and verification

The required commands were run after the authored fixes and claims record were written:

- `node scripts/check-claims-pass.mjs`: exit 1. The sole reported failure was the unrelated `ulam-spiral` record, finding 1, whose disposition format was invalid. No boredom-word error was reported. Left the other worker’s record untouched and did not rerun the global gate to chase concurrent edits.
- `node research/boredom-word/build.mjs`: exit 0. All four numerical assertions passed: 77, 1795, 1470 and 23. The program also printed the selected word-marker span, 308. No generator output is written by this script.
- `node --input-type=module` importing `checkRecord` from `scripts/check-claims-pass.mjs` and applying it only to `assay/records/boredom-word.md`: exit 0, `errs: []`, 104 checked, 76 confirmed, 27 wrong including MINOR, one stale, zero open findings. This isolates this layer’s record from the unrelated global failure.
- `node --input-type=module` parsing the HTML’s inline JavaScript with `vm.Script` and its JSON-LD with `JSON.parse`: exit 0. One JavaScript program and one JSON-LD object parsed; `dateModified` is `2026-10-14`.
- `git diff --check -- public/strata/boredom-word/index.html src/content/strata/boredom-word.md research/boredom-word assay/records/boredom-word.md`: exit 0, no whitespace errors.
- A `python3` heredoc compared all nine Corrections paragraphs with the Markdown mirrors, checked that all nine listed MINOR passages retained their previous text, and scanned added source lines plus the new record for U+2014: exit 0, all checks passed. It also confirmed that this layer has no checkkind placard.

Layer verifier output:

```text
boredom-word: recomputed spans between selected dates (years):

OK  verb "bore" (1768) → "boredom" state sense (1845) = 77
OK  Seneca era marker (~50 CE) → "boredom" state sense (1845) = 1795
OK  acedia era marker (~375 CE) → "boredom" state sense (1845) = 1470
OK  OED first citation (1852) above its lowest antedating (1829) = 23

The selected word markers span 308 years (1537→1845);
the Seneca era marker sits ~1795 years before the selected boredom sense-date.
```

Claims gate output:

```text
claims-pass: 1 layer(s) dated 2026-09-27 or later (or holding a record) carry no sound claims-pass record:
  ✗ ulam-spiral (2026-06-21)
      finding 1: must start "- [fixed] ", "- [dated] ", "- [declined] " or "- [open note:<id>] " and say what it was

  A verifier checks your page against your data; this asks that someone checked it against the
  world. Hand oversight/claims-pass.md to one agent for the layer, re-read the sources yourself
  before acting on what it reports, and write assay/records/<slug>.md (format at the top
  of scripts/check-claims-pass.mjs; a finished example is assay/records/how-big-is-dantes-inferno.md).
  If a pass truly was not run, say so with `waived: "<reason>"`; that passes, and it is printed.
```

The single-layer verifier publication refresh used the same screen and copy rule as `scripts/publish-checks.mjs`, without running its corpus-wide writer:

```sh
node --input-type=module <<'JS'
import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import { screenForPublication } from './scripts/publish-screens.mjs';
const source = 'research/boredom-word/build.mjs';
const destination = 'public/checks/' + source;
const text = readFileSync(source, 'utf8');
const refusal = screenForPublication(source, text, Buffer.byteLength(text));
if (refusal) throw new Error(refusal);
writeFileSync(destination, text);
console.log('Refreshed only', destination, 'from its authored source:', Buffer.byteLength(text), 'bytes.');
const manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync('public/checks/manifest.json', 'utf8'));
const entry = manifest.files.find(x => x.path === source);
console.log('Shared manifest records', entry?.bytes, 'bytes; left unchanged under the shared-file prohibition.');
JS
```

Result: exit 0; the publication screen accepted this source, and only `public/checks/research/boredom-word/build.mjs` was refreshed. Its old bytes matched the pre-edit authored script exactly. The shared manifest still records 2,711 bytes, while the refreshed verifier has 2,758 bytes. A shared publication refresh is left for the directing instance.

Final verification after completing the report and refreshing the published copy: a second direct `checkRecord` call returned `errs: []` with the same 104-claim counts; a `Buffer.equals` comparison confirmed that the published verifier exactly matches the 2,758-byte source. `git diff --check -- public/strata/boredom-word/index.html public/checks/research/boredom-word/build.mjs src/content/strata/boredom-word.md research/boredom-word assay/records/boredom-word.md` exited 0. Final path-limited status showed only the five existing layer files and the new claims record listed in this report.

Read-only investigation used `pwd`, `rg --files` and targeted `rg -n` searches; `cat`, `sed -n` and `nl -ba` on the triage, source/checker records, layer files, gate and publication script; `git status --short`; `git log -5 --format='%h %ad %s' --date=short 4bec84fb04 -- public/strata/boredom-word/index.html`; `git diff --stat` and `git diff --unified=2` limited to this layer; `git ls-files public/checks/research/boredom-word/build.mjs`; and `ls -l` on that copy. The first root-wide status showed concurrent work and was followed by path-limited checks. No applicable AGENTS.md was found. Web open/find calls re-read the sources listed above, including positive passage matches and no-match checks for OED/Oxford in the Dictionary.com article and taedium vitae in the cited Latin dialogue. The web find for the old English phrase returned related passages rather than an exact negative, so the correction rests on the verified source passage, not that search result alone.

Edits were applied with `python3 /tmp/boredom-word-fix-1014-fxghis7d/edit.py`; the claims record and its full edit report were written with `python3 /tmp/boredom-word-fix-1014-fxghis7d/record.py`, then completed with `python3 /tmp/boredom-word-fix-1014-fxghis7d/finish-record.py`. These local helpers used exact-match replacements and preserved before/after spans in scratch. No downloaded dataset or archive was created.

## Not done

- The shared `public/checks/manifest.json` byte-count entry needs the directing instance’s publication refresh: it records 2,711 bytes for the now 2,758-byte layer verifier. The corpus-wide publisher would also write shared output and other layers, so it was not run.
- The global claims gate’s unrelated `ulam-spiral` disposition error was not edited.
- X1, X2, X11, X18, X20, X26, X27, X28 and X30 remain unchanged as directed, with individual MINOR [declined] findings and the triage reasons above.
- X21 and X25 were rejected as access-based findings. The named files exist, and the page uses repository paths rather than the inferred HTTP routes. No route or download link was added.
- The Albion original was not inspected; its 1829 use remains explicitly secondary. The historical identity question is left open.
- The fixer refreshed public/checks/research/boredom-word/build.mjs as described above. This repair wrote only the layer record and its repair report. No image, film, audio, OCR, PDF rendering, package install, full build, placard rewrite or OEIS derivation was run. No bulk data was downloaded.