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Dolorous adj.

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. "You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort."

Occasioning pain or grief; painful. "Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear or teeth of the lion."

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Etymology of 'Dolorous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dolorous" Quotes from Famous Books

... ye by the waters, and chant with melancholy notes the dolorous song, even such a song as in his time with voice like yours he was wont to sing. And tell again to the OEagrian maidens, tell to all the Nymphs Bistonian, how that he hath ...

— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang

... indeed, when there was a high wind, the Doctor's marrow crawled in his backbone at the sound of groanings and moanings and most dolorous cries for help, coming up out of black Coupee Bay, where they had picked up Tom Hamon's and Peter ...

— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham

... and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread,— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "Song of ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... the dolorous Jack Tar Turns to view the watery Vast, When he mourns his frail charac-tar, Or deplores his ...

— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)

... the case. Between Italy and the Albanians there are no such ancient political and economic ties as between the Albanians and the Serbs. The mediaeval connection with Venice has left with many Albanians a dolorous memory, for apart from the fact that Venice, as in Dalmatia, was pursuing a merely selfish policy, it was directly due to her that the Turkish Sultan, in the fifteenth century, was able to establish himself in Albania. ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

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