Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Sorrowful; mournful.
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The month was August; in the middle of which lay my own birthday -- a festival to every thoughtful man suggesting solemn and often sigh-born [Footnote: "_Sigh-born_": -- I owe the suggestion of this word to an obscure remembrance of a beautiful phrase in "Giraldus
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc Thomas De Quincey 1822
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