Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Causing or bringing sorrow or mourning.

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  • adjective mournful

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Examples

  • Without enough pluck to overcome such dreadful foes, what damsel would not be luctiferous, for she would bear much sorrow in losing her limbs and paps to lustful flesheaters.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1 1980

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  • "LUCTIFEROUS, (luctifer, L.) causing or bringing sorrow or mourning.", Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (E. Bell; 1724)

    February 9, 2008

  • Good word! Peritus, I'm borrowing this for my "Carry Me Home" list. :-)

    February 9, 2008