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laments

English

Noun

laments

  1. plural of lament

Anagrams

  • manlets, mantels, mantles, mentals

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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)

  1. 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.

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