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Definition of Dolorous
1. Adjective. Showing sorrow.
Similar to: Sorrowful
Derivative terms: Dolor, Dolor, Tearfulness
Definition of Dolorous
1. a. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
Definition of Dolorous
1. Adjective. Solemnly or ponderously sad. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dolorous
1. mournful [adj] - See also: mournful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolorous
Literary usage of Dolorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"... BOOK XI CHAPTER I How Sir Launcelot rode on his adventure, and how he holp a
dolorous lady from her pain, ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"A dolorous JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD. [A Voyage to Virginia?] THE month of August,
Anno 1649, being the time I engag'd to meet my two comrades, Major Francis ..."
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