different between terms vs oversorrow

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

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Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

over- +? sorrow

Verb

oversorrow (third-person singular simple present oversorrows, present participle oversorrowing, simple past and past participle oversorrowed)

1. (transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively.
   • 1826 (original 1643), John Milton, Francis Jenks, A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton:

     He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that serene and blissful condition it was in at the beginning, and shall deserve of all [...]

   • 1818, Annabella Plumptre, Tales of wonder, of humour, and of sentiment:

     " Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself."

Derived terms

• oversorrowed
• oversorrowing