Definition of Dolefullest

1. doleful [adj] - See also: doleful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolefullest

dolci
doldrum
doldrums
dole
dole bludger
dole bludgers
dole out
dolebludger
doled
doled out
doleful
dolefuler
dolefulest
dolefull
dolefuller
dolefullest (current term)
dolefully
dolefulness
dolefulnesses
dolemite
dolent
dolente
dolerite
dolerites
doleritic
dolerophanite
doles
dolesome
dolia
dolich-

Literary usage of Dolefullest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (1908)
"... and set him down by the brink of the fountain; and there he made great languor and dole, and made the dolefullest complaint of love that ever man heard; ..."

2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1917)
"The hours following her capture may well have been the dolefullest night that ever my eyes saw. Oh the roaring, and singing, and dancing, and yelling of ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... her breast up.till a thorn, And then sang the dolefullest ditty, That to hear it was great pity. That to hear her so complain Scarce I could from tears ..."

4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... and die the other death where there is nothing left, and this is to them the dolefullest thing of all.1 Thus the Fijians tell of the fight which the ..."

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