Posted on 05/07/2021 9:04:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
dolorous
Definitions:
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition:
adjective Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
from The Century Dictionary. Exciting or expressing sorrow, grief, or distress; dismal; mournful: as, a dolorous object; a dolorous region; dolorous sighs. Painful; giving pain.
Synonyms See list under doleful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English:
adjective Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal adjective Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License:
adjective Solemnly or ponderously sad.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective showing sorrow
Etymologies from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition [Middle English, from Old French doloros, from Late Latin dolōrōsus, from dolor, dolor; see dolor.] from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License From Old French dolerous (modern French douloureux), from Latin dolōrōsus ("painful").
Examples "Don't you? it can't be helped then!" replied he in dolorous resignation: then, with a peculiar half smile, he added, "But never mind; I imagine the squire has more to apologize for than I," and left the cottage.
Agnes Grey
These words uttered, she descends to earth in all her terrors, and calls dolorous Allecto from the home of the Fatal Sisters in nether gloom, whose delight is in woeful wars, in wrath and treachery and evil feuds: hateful to [327-360] lord Pluto himself, hateful and horrible to her hell-born sisters; into so many faces does she turn, so savage the guise of each, so thick and black bristles she with vipers.
The Aeneid of Virgil
His expression was dolorous, I guess because he’d wanted to get rid of me.
Haunted Honeymoon
But, Nabokov being Nabokov, what clinches it for me is that dismal haze — which could equally be described as a dolorous haze or you see where I’m going with this as a Dolores Haze.
Lolita’s Ancestor - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
But, Nabokov being Nabokov, what clinches it for me is that dismal haze — which could equally be described as a dolorous haze or you see where I’m going with this as a Dolores Haze.
Loren ipsum dolor.
These dolorous times of tyranny rhyme with nothing.
There once was a girl name Dolores.
Whose outlook was very dolorous.
She went out one day,
For a roll in the hay.
And came back singing Beethoven’s Chorus...................
Reading this was very dolorous!
< /Seinfeld >
That Democrats were
Despondent, much discouraged
In dread dolorous!
</Everybody Loves Raymond>....................
Every one knows its a name:
Madam Dolores Jane Umbridge (b. 26 August, 1961 or earlier) was a half-blood witch and a British Ministry of Magic bureaucrat who served as Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic under Ministers Cornelius Fudge, Rufus Scrimgeour, and Pius Thicknesse.
Per Harry Potter.
Almost 3/4 a century ago I was dating a girl named dolorous...
Lived up to her name...
Anyone who has read the Game of Thrones books know that there was a character among the Black Watch who was named, by his brothers, as Dolorous Ed.
I thought that was a car..... :)
ISWYDT!.................That would be a hybrid between a Delorean and a Taurus.................
Who's got the buku Dolores today?
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