dolente

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Dole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go.

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  • "La Cittב dolente," and "la perduta gente," were familiar to the imaginations of the people, by the monkish visions, and it seems even by ocular illusions of Hell, exhibited in Mysteries, with its gulfs of flame, and its mountains of ice, and the shrieks of the condemned. —  Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
  • If he have any poetical remembrance of Dante, he may easily imagine he has entered the citta dolente, and he will seem to read on the granite rocks of Baraguan these lines of the Inferno Noi sem venuti al luogo, ov' i' t'ho detto Che tu vedrai le genti dolorose The lower strata of air, from the surface of the ground to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, are absolutely filled with venomous insects. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
  • Dole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go. —  The Unseen World and Other Essays
  • 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 Unseen World and Other Essays
  • The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italian and the Teuton parted company on their way from Central Asia. —  The Unseen World and Other Essays
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  1. Italian, from Latin dolens (dolent-): see dolent.
 

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