Sorrowing
[sɒrəʊ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sorrow
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Examples
- I will discipline my sorrowing heart to sympathy in your joys; I will be happy, because ye are so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She made it her task to attend the sick, comfort the sorrowing, assist the aged, and partake the sports and awaken the gaiety of the young. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But will he have no sorrow, or shall we say that although he cannot help sorrowing, he will moderate his sorrow? Plato. The Republic.
- Burns, lamenting that his share uptears the bed of the wee modest crimson-tipped flower and sorrowing that he has turned the Mousie from its bit o' leaves and stibble by the cruel coulter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He beat upon his great chest with his clenched fists, and then he fell upon the body of Kala and sobbed out the pitiful sorrowing of his lonely heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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