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elcicihuini.

Headword: 
elcicihuini.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who sighs; a sigher (said of the person who delivers his or her mind and heart to the deity)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 8, 44.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in uel elciciujnj in nelli icnotlacatl, in nelli icnopilli, in nelli motolinja = the truly sighing one, the truly miserable, the truly poverty-stricken one, the truly poor (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 8.