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noun

Sadness n.

Heaviness; firmness. (Obs.)

Seriousness; gravity; discretion. (Obs.) "Her sadness and her benignity."

Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. "Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages."

Synonyms: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sadness" Quotes from Famous Books

... a little joy. He could not tell her any more. Why could he not tell her any more? She felt a pang of disconsolate sadness. But it was nothing. She went ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... courage which never leaves him in these days of affliction," said Louisa, quickly. "But his so-called friends and advisers, Messrs. von Haugwitz, Koeckeritz, Voss, and Kalkreuth, received the heart-rending news with secret satisfaction. I read it in their faces, notwithstanding the sadness they assumed. They regard the fall of Magdeburg as an ally of their intentions and schemes. They desire peace with France—peace at any price—and hope that the king will now approve their views. Hence, Minister von Stein, ...

— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach

... In gloomy sadness, hardly casting a passing glance at his daughter, whose anxiety and death-like paleness he did not even perceive, Gotzkowsky entered the hall, Bertram carefully bolting the doors behind him, and then in an undertone gave Balthazar and the servants ...

— The Merchant of Berlin - An Historical Novel • L. Muhlbach

... yourself and burn like a watch-fire afar off there in your Germany." His mind was full of poems; much of his future work was projected although little was completed. He wrote one sonnet called "Mezzo Cammin," never printed until after his death; perhaps he thought it too expressive of personal sadness. ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

... been suddenly orphaned, deserted, pushed to the wall. I was seized with an overwhelming sadness, mingled with anger, hatred, disgust; my whole being seemed to rise up in revolt against the injustice, the meanness, the dishonor, the rejected love. I began to run, in order to overtake them along the Seine, which they had to follow in order to ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

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