Word Meanings - DREARING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sorrow. Spenser.

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• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• SORROWLESS
  Free from sorrow.
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• OVERSORROW
  To grieve or afflict to excess. Milton.
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNSORROWED
  Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.