Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
doleful. Spenser .
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Examples
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James Melville speaks of 1596 as to be 'markitt for a special perriodic and fatall yeir to the Kirk of Scotland,' and he enters on his narrative of it 'with a sorrowful heart and drouping eyes,' so 'doolful' was the decay it ushered in.
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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