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Sorrow

noun

An emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement.

Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment. Synonyms: regret, rue, ruefulness. "He wrote a note expressing his regret" , "To his rue, the error cost him the game"

Something that causes great unhappiness. Synonym: grief.

The state of being sad. Synonyms: sadness, sorrowfulness.

verb

(past & past part. sorrowed; pres. part. sorrowing)

Feel grief. Synonym: grieve.

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"Sorrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... little copper statue. His bright black eyes were fast melting in floods of tears, when he caught his grandmother's eye and recollected her oft-repeated adage: "Tears for woman and the war-whoop for man to drown sorrow!" ...

— Indian Boyhood • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

... planning to be very happy about it. Now I see the meaning of the Camp Fire Girls' law, 'Be happy.' It doesn't mean be happy when everything is coming your way, but in spite of everything when things are going wrong. Just so when we learned to say, 'For I will bring ... my joy and sorrow to the fire.' There is more than one way to make a fire. If you haven't a joyful match handy to scratch and make an instant blaze, you can start one with the slow rubbing sticks of sorrow. But either one will kindle the torch that you can pass on to ...

— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey

... and then dropped it swiftly. "I know what love is now, because you have taught me. Listen, Miss Savine, I am as the Almighty made me, a plain—and sometimes an ill-tempered man, who would gladly lay down his life to save you sorrow; but if what you say divides us is all there is, then, as long as you remain Helen Savine, I shall cling fast to my purpose and strive to prove myself worthy. Again, you were right—how could you be otherwise?—but I shall yet convince you that you ...

— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss

... to carry. It is true that the past year's sorrow had worn me very much, so that there was but little flesh on my great, gaunt frame; but I still weighed nine score pounds, and thus would tire any horse that had to carry me a long distance. I could not have ridden a more noble animal, however; ...

— Roger Trewinion • Joseph Hocking

... with some wild notion of comforting her; "but try to tell me this trouble! There is nothing under heaven—no calamity, no sorrow—that I wouldn't gladly share with you, or take all upon myself ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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