Archaic term for fatigue or weariness, especially from prolonged activity.
A variant or corruption of 'fatigue,' likely from French 'fatigue' combined with regional phonetic shifts in Early Modern English. The unusual spelling suggests dialectal pronunciation where 'ti' replaced 'ti' sounds.
This word appears in some 18th-century texts as a forgotten variant that shows how spelling and pronunciation were far more fluid before standardized dictionaries locked words down—the same root gave us our modern 'fatigue.'
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