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- noun
sorrow ;grief orsadness
Etymologies
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Greek πενθος.
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Examples
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Pentheus-a name foreshadowing grief (penthos) to come.
Rhetoric Aristotle 2002
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Many times during the last few weeks I have repeated to myself those fine lines of old Hesiod: ei gar tis kai penthos egon neokedei thumo aksetai kradien akakhemenos, autar aoidos mousaon therapon kleia proteron anthropon umnese, makaras te theous oi Olumpon ekhousi, aips oge dusphroneon epilethetai oude ti kedeon memnetai takheos de paretrape dora theaon.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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[Greek: Pentheus d 'opos mae penthos eisoisei domois] (_Bacchae_,
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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