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What is accidie?

What is accidie? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (literary) Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy. [from 13th c.]
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Underneath the surface excitements the demon of accidie had her by the hair.
Every Friday night, car stereo blaring, he and Dan would screech to a halt on the gravel, Dan sweet but quiet, Tim snarling with urban accidie.
During the great war the disease of accidie was prevalent in prison camps, as any account of Ruhleben shows very clearly.
Anomie and accidie which were also mentioned are, I fear, surely doomed to extinction.
So when you think of these three men, it cannot be middle age or old age that really produce this accidie.
What is the origin of this nefarious Nebuchadnezzar, who would take away speech for chat, thought for instinct, righteousness for accidie?

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