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- noun Plural form of
dolor .
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Examples
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But the point is that if we were to stop spending trillions of dolors on military adventurism and hardware pork, and the price of oil was to subsequently increase, I would view that as more likely a feature then abug.
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Who, raised in or around the Christian tradition, has not experienced the ambivalent dolors of a Sunday?
The Day of Restlessness Jay Tolson 2008
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He tallies the positives (hedons) and negatives (dolors) of the situation in advance and selects the course of action that is likely to result in the most positives or hedons.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Controversial Peter Singer 2007
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He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed, and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death.
The Essays 2007
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Besides, there is no part of us proof against fire, sword, teeth, or scourges, or insensible of dolors and aches; yea, heats, colds, and fevers sink into all our parts alike.
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We only beg of them, if they will own their own diseases and not by noisy rants and popular harangues incur the imputation of false bravery, either not to take the health of the whole body for the ground of their content, or else not to say that men under the extremities of dolors and diseases can yet rally and be pleasant.
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Lord's Passion; a white one in honor of the Holy Trinity; a blue one in honor of the Immaculate Conception; and a black one in honor of the seven dolors of sorrows of the Blessed Virgin.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead
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What are the "seven dolors" of the Blessed Virgin?
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead
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Seven dolor beads are beads constructed with seven medals, each bearing a representation of one of the seven dolors, and seven beads between each medal and the next.
Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) Anonymous
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The seven dolors are seven chief occasions of sorrow in the life of our
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead
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