Definitions
Etymologies
- Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor ("pain, grief"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My heart sunk in to the bottomless pit as well as we hated the unhappy dolour starred behind whenever we looked in to the mirror.”
“SAN ANTONIO, TX, Nov 09, 2009/24-7PressRelease/-- Ah, the intense pangs of dolour from those who will miss their Whataburger A. 1.”
“There are few performers who can hold an audience captive like this double act – Burrows with his terrier intellect snapping at the heels of Fargion's comic, Italianate dolour.”
“Dutas can be engaged through the peel so special dolour should be exercised in regard to pregnant women or women second-rate to ripen into pregnant.”
“These bulls were so wild, that they were never taken but by slight and crafty labour, and so impatient, that after they were taken they died from insupportable dolour.”
“Then I awoke from sleep and bade my women bring me meat and drink, so haply, when I had drunken, the dolour of the dream would cease from me.”
“With longings, dolour, sleepliness and bale and bane?”
“Presently, as his drunkenness fled, came dolour in its stead.”
“But the dolour of my mind was surpassed by the discomfort of my body.”
“And when he came there he gart unarm them, and beat them with thorns all naked, and after put them in a deep prison where were many more knights, that made great dolour.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘dolour’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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billy shakespeare's guide to good living
hurlyburly, nave, direful, whence, sooth, dwindle, tempest-tost, withal, selfsame, wrack, unfix, recompense and 142 more...
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traipsin' 'long through dis 'ear book...
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Words which I comprehend generally but would prefer a more precise definition.
venality, seigneurial, mendicant, perforce, manse, glebe, trenchant, saw, obstreperous, profligate, dissipation, galliard and 176 more...
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effleurer's Words
languor, nincompoop, masquerade, envelop, deceit, guttersnipe, undulating, ululation, ridiculous, insufferable, loverly, eternity and 89 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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runonmaven's Words
lethologica, hypostatize, terminal, terminus, insentient, gilded, heuristic, dissonant, ubiquitous, polemic, dolour, embouchement and 16 more...
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