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Definition of Mournfulness
1. Noun. A state of gloomy sorrow.
Specialized synonyms: Woe, Woefulness, Plaintiveness
Generic synonyms: Sorrow
Derivative terms: Mournful, Mournful, Ruthful, Sorrowful
Definition of Mournfulness
1. Noun. The property of being mournful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mournfulness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mournfulness
Literary usage of Mournfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... almost eternal as the burden of her desolation seemed now to have become, it
was yet to be removed, ere long, by feelings of a tenderer mournfulness, ..."
2. The Gypsy Trail: An Anthology for Campers by Mary Hopkins, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark (1914)
"... to more than loftier stress Of mournfulness not mournfulness, Not mournfulness
but Joy's excess, That singing, on the lap of sorrow faints: And Peace, ..."
3. An Art-student in Munich by Anna Mary Howitt (1854)
"Yet the very intensity of the fresh beauty called forth a mournfulness in the soul !
Who does not know this strange mournfulness! when the luxuriance of the ..."
4. An Art Student in Munich by Anna Mary Howitt Watts (1854)
"Who does not know this strange mournfulness! when the luxuriance of the grass
... Never had I seen this longing and this mournfulness so fully expressed as ..."
5. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... almost eternal as the burden of her desolation seemed now to have become, it
was yet to be removed, ere long, by feelings of a tenderer mournfulness, ..."
6. The Gypsy Trail: An Anthology for Campers by Mary Hopkins, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark (1914)
"... to more than loftier stress Of mournfulness not mournfulness, Not mournfulness
but Joy's excess, That singing, on the lap of sorrow faints: And Peace, ..."
7. An Art-student in Munich by Anna Mary Howitt (1854)
"Yet the very intensity of the fresh beauty called forth a mournfulness in the soul !
Who does not know this strange mournfulness! when the luxuriance of the ..."
8. An Art Student in Munich by Anna Mary Howitt Watts (1854)
"Who does not know this strange mournfulness! when the luxuriance of the grass
... Never had I seen this longing and this mournfulness so fully expressed as ..."
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