Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sorrowful manner; with sorrow.
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- adverb In a
sorrowful manner, done withsorrow andregret .
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- adverb in a sorrowful manner
- adverb with sadness; in a sorrowful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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The girl repeated the name sorrowfully, but perplexedly, not grasping its full significance.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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The girl repeated the name sorrowfully, but perplexedly, not grasping its full significance.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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The girl repeated the name sorrowfully, but perplexedly, not grasping its full significance.
The Crossing 1904
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Penn "sorrowfully" consented to their action, appointed a deputy governor over them, and afterward granted them an assembly.
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I don't know where he is now "-- sorrowfully --" unless, "with a sudden brightening of his expressive face," he is up your petticoats. "
April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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"We didn't know about those things back then, dear," she said to me sorrowfully.
Lee Woodruff: Horsing Around in the Shower Lee Woodruff 2011
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Now the Justice leadership wants to convince us that it's done everything that anyone could possibly do to catch bank fraudsters, but that it must now sorrowfully and reluctantly quit the field.
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As a young boy, I once had to watch a father sorrowfully attempt to disregard the constant badgering of people attending the funeral of his teenage son, turning a deaf ear to rumours surrounding the circumstances of the boy's death.
Fahad Faruqui: (Not) Giving In To Gossip Fahad Faruqui 2011
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He turned to look sorrowfully at the now locked and barred doors.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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He turned to look sorrowfully at the now locked and barred doors.
From The Adventures of Lance Mannion: Louisiana Mannion and the Golden Goddess of Fire 2009
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