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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
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. ..."