Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Grieving; full of grief; sorrowful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Sorrowful.
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- adjective archaic
Sad ,sorrowful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The expression dolent may thus satisfy the student familiar with Italian, because it calls up in his mind, through the medium of its equivalent dolente, the same associations which the latter calls up in the mind of the Italian himself.
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
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The expression dolent may thus satisfy the student familiar with Italian, because it calls up in his mind, through the medium of its equivalent dolente, the same associations which the latter calls up in the mind of the Italian himself. 9 But this power of appreciating thoroughly the beauties of a foreign tongue is in the last degree an acquired taste, -- as much so as the taste for olives and kirschenwasser to the carnal palate.
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Libris obraimur, oculi legendo, manus volitando dolent.
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But the dolent accents returned as he opened his proofs and read them.
Balzac 2003
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And, indeed, leaving a rabble of long prologues and protestations, which ordinarily these dolent contemplative lent-lovers make who never meddle with the flesh, one day he said unto her, Madam, it would be
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And, indeed, leaving a rabble of long prologues and protestations, which ordinarily these dolent contemplative lent-lovers make who never meddle with the flesh, one day he said unto her, Madam, it would be
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When the sailors heard this they were very dolent, but there was naught that they might do.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France
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Towards this forest Graelent rode, deep in heavy thought, and very dolent.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France
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When all had been rehearsed and shown to him, and he had well considered the matter, the knight was very dolent; yet in no wise would he avenge himself wrongfully.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France
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Very dolent was he and sorely troubled that so young a knight should be esteemed above his fathers.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France
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"Did you find them all, Uncle Van?" she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor.
May 17, 2008