Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing pain or grief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing pain.
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- adjective Producing
pain .
Etymologies
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Latin
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Examples
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West Eleventh streak looks on to that (may all in the tocoming of the sempereternal speel spry with it!) datetree doloriferous which more and over leafeth earlier than every growth and, elfshot, headawag, with frayed nerves wondering till they feeled sore like any woman that has been born at all events to the purdah and for the howmanyeth and how-movingth time at what the demons in that jackhouse that jerry built for Massa and Missus and hijo de puta, the sparksown fermament of the starryk fieldgosongingon where blows
Finnegans Wake 2006
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