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Definition of Dolorousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolorousness
Literary usage of Dolorousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"He sat in the same box with us at the " Merry Wives of Windsor," and helped to
carry off the dolorousness of the play. Alas! the work is so heavy just for ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"... dolorousness of the tone em- ployed; and we may add that the Reporters seem
to us to entertain most extraordinary and peculiar notions of the depressing ..."
3. Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor by George Ticknor, Anna (Eliot) Ticknor (1909)
"If he groaned, they groaned with comical dolorousness ; if he complained, they
complained most pertinaciously with him; and the words " 'T is shameful," " T ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"... could not resist that piece of close reasoning ; and would go over to the
other side of the House—that is, to the side of dumps and dolorousness. ..."
5. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"But so He was pleased to take man unto His aid, not only to represent His own
need and the dolorousness of His passion, but to consign the duty unto man, ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1820)
"... of the extreme dolorousness of modern poets; our two Franks seem determined
to assist in rescuing the age from this terrible reproach. ..."
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