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  • adverb While sorrowing; sorrowfully, woefully.

Etymologies

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sorrowing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Hetty was mourned as dead: in every home her name was tenderly and sorrowingly spoken; old memories of her gay and mirthful youth, of her cheery and busy womanhood, were revived and dwelt upon.

    Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

  • But always, after the managers had finished suggesting bits that would brighten it up, and changes that would put it over with the Western buyers, Harrietta would regard the mutilated manuscript sorrowingly.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

  • He departed sorrowingly from the deck, clasping the precious volume to his heart.

    The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896

  • One by one the other voices took up the strain, until in a full chorus the sorrowingly compassionate melody went thrilling through the moonlit silence of the night.

    The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

  • Florence's lip curled, and Mary looked sorrowingly, pityingly upon them -- hers was the expression with which the angel multitudes of

    Inez A Tale of the Alamo 1872

  • I am sorrowingly mistaken in my estimate of Christian Europe, among whose people I spent a few months of my life, if they all, and

    God Seen Above All National Calamities 1865

  • Page 87 could be exhibited, from call, visit, patient, disease, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, to cure; or else ominously and sorrowingly murmur to the bereaved friends who are taking the measure -- "if he'd only sent for me sooner!"

    Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" 1858

  • Roupall and the others slunk silently and sorrowingly away, and the little group -- Dalton, Barbara, the Jewess, Fleetword, and Robin -- stood nearly together on the ledge.

    The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

  • How eagerly, yet sorrowingly we watch his movements!

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Various 1840

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