Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from sorrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from sorrow.
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- adjective Devoid of
sorrow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And there came down from the mountain-top to the sea Chiron, son of Philyra, and where the white surf broke he dipped his feet, and, often waving with his broad hand, cried out to them at their departure, “Good speed and a sorrowless home-return!”
The Argonautica 2008
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“Suppose,” he said, “I start to look for the unborn, the unaging, unailing, deathless, sorrowless, incorrupt and supreme freedom from this bondage?”
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, were you the blissful Queen of Gondor, still I would love you.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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Sleep sorrowless henceforth with the host of thy men
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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And there came down from the mountain-top to the sea Chiron, son of Philyra, and where the white surf broke he dipped his feet, and, often waving with his broad hand, cried out to them at their departure, "Good speed and a sorrowless home-return!"
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Sinless and sorrowless, robed in thy righteousness,
Poems of the Heart and Home J. C. Yule
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Sinless and sorrowless, robed in thy righteousness,
Poems of the Heart and Home J. C. Yule
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And there came down from the mountain-top to the sea Chiron, son of Philyra, and where the white surf broke he dipped his feet, and, often waving with his broad hand, cried out to them at their departure, "Good speed and a sorrowless home-return!"
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Sinless and sorrowless, robed in thy righteousness,
Poems of the Heart and Home J. C. Yule
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But there was something in the quiet of the spot, that seemed to Delmé in harmony with his history; and to promise, that a sorrowless world had already opened, on one who had loved so truly, and felt so deeply in this.
A Love Story A Bushman
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