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dolorous
English
Alternative forms
- dolourous (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English dolorous, from Old French dolerous (modern French douloureux), from Late Latin dol?r?sus (“painful”), from Latin dolor. Doublet of dolorose.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?l???s/, /?do?l???s/
Adjective
dolorous (comparative more dolorous, superlative most dolorous)
- Solemnly or ponderously sad.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 4:
- Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
- Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
- Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
- 1645, John Milton, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
- . . . Hell itself will pass away,
- And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
- 2001 June 24, Stefan Kanfer, "Author, Teacher, Witness," Time:
- As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 4:
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