Definition of Dolent

1. a. Sorrowful.

Definition of Dolent

1. Adjective. (archaic) Sad, sorrowful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dolent

1. mournful [adj] - See also: mournful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolent

dole bludgers
dole out
dolebludger
doled
doled out
doleful
dolefuler
dolefulest
dolefull
dolefuller
dolefullest
dolefully
dolefulness
dolefulnesses
dolemite
dolent (current term)
dolente
dolerite
dolerites
doleritic
dolerophanite
doles
dolesome
dolia
dolich-
dolicho-
dolichocephalic
dolichocephalism
dolichocephalous
dolichocephaly

Literary usage of Dolent

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

1. Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1877)
"Of these may be mentioned : the COL I>OI,KNT (11624'). between the Aiguille de Triolet and the Mont dolent; the Сот. DK TRIOLET (12162') and the COL UK ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"C., lu dolent. The condition of body in which the morbid tendency is to passive congestions and chronic abscesses rather than to acute inflammations. ..."

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