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  • adjective Brit. same as dolorous.

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  • adjective Alternative form of dolorous.

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  • adjective showing sorrow

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Examples

  • Kynge Arthur, of his noble knyghtes of the Round Table, theyr mervayllous enquestes and adventures, the achyevying of the Holy Grail, and in the end the dolourous deth and departyng out of thys world of them al. Whiche book was reduced in to englysshe by Syr Thomas Malory knyght as afore is sayd, and by me enprynted and fynyshed in the abbey

    Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler

  • Balin that gave the dolourous stroke unto King Pellam; of Sir Tor that sought the lady's brachet and by the way overcame two knights and smote off the head of the outrageous caitiff Abelleus, -- of these and many like matters of pith and moment, full of blood and honour, told Sir Lancelot, and the people had marvel of his words.

    The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • I sick with dolourous thought and weak through tears

    Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Jean Ingelow 1858

  • Through all that dolourous storm; though noise of guns

    Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Jean Ingelow 1858

  • In e mail program, neology a yellowish vintager apprehensiveness is intelligent to dripping a new brutalisation who caravanning be straightforwardness dolourous.

    Rational Review 2009

  • i slam my hands to my ears until it all becomes a blur of sound. and the preacher's dolourous tone lifts sky-ward but fails to reach the sky.

    unheimlich Diary Entry unheimlich 2002

  • (ignoraunt wherfore he went in) should issue out of his maistresse chamber, the Stewarde rauished with inexplicable ioye and gladnesse, like to the pleasure of hym that had attaynde the summe of his desires, called hys Lorde to see that heauye and dolourous sighte.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Of the wars against the Saracens and misbelieving men; of the discomfiture of the Romans when they came to take truage of King Arthur; of the strife with the eleven kings and the battle that was ended but never flnished; of the Questing Beast and how King Pellinore and then Sir Palamides followed it; of Balin that gave the dolourous stroke unto King Pellam; of Sir Tor that sought the lady's brachet and by the way overcame two knights and smote off the head of the outrageous caitiff Abelleus, -- of these and many like matters of pith and moment, full of blood and honour, told Sir Lancelot, and the people bad marvel of his words.

    The Blue Flower 1902

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