Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old French dolent, from Latin dolēntem, present participle of dolēre ("to grieve"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The expression dolent may thus satisfy the student familiar with Italian, because it calls up in his mind, through the medium of its equivalent dolente, the same associations which the latter calls up in the mind of the Italian himself.”
“The expression dolent may thus satisfy the student familiar with Italian, because it calls up in his mind, through the medium of its equivalent dolente, the same associations which the latter calls up in the mind of the Italian himself. 9 But this power of appreciating thoroughly the beauties of a foreign tongue is in the last degree an acquired taste, -- as much so as the taste for olives and kirschenwasser to the carnal palate.”
“Libris obraimur, oculi legendo, manus volitando dolent.”
“But the dolent accents returned as he opened his proofs and read them.”
“And, indeed, leaving a rabble of long prologues and protestations, which ordinarily these dolent contemplative lent-lovers make who never meddle with the flesh, one day he said unto her, Madam, it would be”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Very dolent was he and sorely troubled that so young a knight should be esteemed above his fathers.”
“When the sailors heard this they were very dolent, but there was naught that they might do.”
“Towards this forest Graelent rode, deep in heavy thought, and very dolent.”
“When all had been rehearsed and shown to him, and he had well considered the matter, the knight was very dolent; yet in no wise would he avenge himself wrongfully.”
“When the King heard thereof he was passing heavy and dolent, and considered within himself how he might be delivered from this grief.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dolent’.
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dysteleology, dyslogistic, dystectic, dysphoria, dysphonia, dystopia, dysphemism, dystocia, dyslogia, dysaesthesia, dyschromatopic, dysbulia and 624 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Ada, or Ardor
I only started dog-earing 2/5 of the way through, so I'll have to re-read at some point in order to complete this list.
fatidic, herbarium, volitation, plafond, pseudopodal, hongry, dolent, dackel, fubsy, hurdies, palpebral, twayblade and 98 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Doleful, Woeful, Sad or Unhappy
Words meaning doleful, woeful, sad or unhappy
lamentable, lugubrious, elenge, dolesome, dolent, disconsolate, distressful, infelicitous
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yarb "Did you find them all, Uncle Van?" she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor. May 17, 2008