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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

... recurred with the mournful iteration of some dolorous refrain; and yielding to the spell she leaned her forehead against the chimney-piece, and repeated them sadly ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... de Barjols, who, moved like the others by this singular outburst, more sad, or rather dolorous, than gay, had waited for its last echo to subside. "Sir, permit me to point out to you that the man whom you have just seen ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

... eaten alone for so many years; the black walnut chairs set back against the wall at regular intervals; the rag carpet and braided mats—homemade donations from the ladies of the parish—on the green painted floor; the dolorous pictures on the walls; "Death of Washington," "Stoning of Stephen," and a still more deadly "fruit piece" committed in oils years ago by a now deceased boat painter; a black walnut sideboard with some blue-and-white crockery upon it; a gilt-framed mirror with another outrage in oils emphasizing its ...

— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

... which she would not tell me, though she acknowledged it concerned myself. Ever since she had followed me about, very softly, for her, and called me more than once, as when I was a child, "my dear." She now came with half-dolorous, half-angry looks, to summon me to an interview with ...

— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... in his freedom—and he appreciated her bright, natural ways. Now and then Martina even succeeded in winning a smile from "Hermes Trismegistus," who was "generally as solemn as though there was no such thing on earth as a jest," and in spurring him to a rejoinder which showed that this dolorous being had a particularly keen and ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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