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Definition of Dolour
1. Noun. (poetry) painful grief.
Category relationships: Poesy, Poetry, Verse
Generic synonyms: Brokenheartedness, Grief, Heartache, Heartbreak
Derivative terms: Dolorous, Dolourous
Definition of Dolour
1. Noun. (literary) A painful grief or suffering. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dolour
1. dolor [n -S] - See also: dolor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolour
Literary usage of Dolour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1835)
"Containing the fearful wrath of William the Testy, and the great dolour of the
New-Amsterdammers, because of the affair of Fort Goed Hoop—and, moreover, ..."
2. The Complete Works of John Gower by John Gower (1899)
"Pour ce dolour sanz terminer Ert tout soen propre par descente. ... grant joye
multiplie, Mais l'autre de leur false envie De leur joye ont dolour reçu. ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... On dining with Daer. Would-be-roguish. with a would-be-roguish leer and wink,
Prologue, at Th., D.. Wound. Which bled all the wounds of my dolour again. ..."
4. The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland: Or, A Metrical Version of the History by Hector Boece, William Stewart (1858)
"... Tha passit tame with, greit dolour and cair, i8,835 And murning maid the langar
ay the mair ; With greit ..."
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