Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See dolor.

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  • noun literary A painful grief or suffering.

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  • noun (poetry) painful grief

Etymologies

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Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor ("pain, grief").

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Examples

  • SAN ANTONIO, TX, Nov 09, 2009/24-7PressRelease/-- Ah, the intense pangs of dolour from those who will miss their Whataburger A. 1.

    'Whataburger Serves' admin 2009

  • 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.

    Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion - review Judith Mackrell 2010

  • SAN ANTONIO, TX, Nov 09, 2009/24-7PressRelease/-- Ah, the intense pangs of dolour from those who will miss their Whataburger A. 1.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • 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.

    Sensuality Flo's Heart Opening Moments admin 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • 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.

    CALL FOR TESTIMONIALS Steven Barnes 2009

  • 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.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • With longings, dolour, sleepliness and bale and bane?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Presently, as his drunkenness fled, came dolour in its stead.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 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.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

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