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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.

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