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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
sorrow
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Examples
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When thou art departed from me today, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
1 Samuel 10. 1999
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"But canst thou feel our loss in like degree with me?" she exclaimed, bursting into tears; "what shall equal a mother's love, or the grief of her who sorroweth for her only one?"
The Children's Portion Various
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Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
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Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
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But when the body rejoiceth in temporal things and sins, the spirit sorroweth, and sinners have this joy and sadness.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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Again, when the spirit rejoiceth in God, the body sorroweth in time, and this joy and sadness have good people.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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For ever the more that a man dreadeth the pain that he hath deserved, the bitterlier he sorroweth the sins that he hath done.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Lord comforteth and sorroweth; and ever He is to the soul in glad
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He that sorroweth for loss of wealth repaireth not that damage; he that sorroweth for one deceased raiseth not the dead to life again; he that sorroweth for a sickness, not only is not made well but even aggravates the disease: he that sorroweth for sins, he alone attains some advantage from his sorrow, for he maketh his sins wane and disappear.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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And while he yet liveth in my sight and beholdeth the light of the sun, he sorroweth, neither can I help him any whit though I go unto him.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882
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