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Sorrowfulness

noun
1.
The state of being sad.  Synonyms: sadness, sorrow.
2.
A state of gloomy sorrow.  Synonyms: mournfulness, ruthfulness.





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"Sorrowfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a mother and daughter so closely and tenderly attached, and they both took it hard,—as did, about that time, Prince Albert his separation from his brother Ernest, whose long visit was over. The Queen's account of the exceeding sorrowfulness of that parting must now bring to the lips of the most sentimental reader, though "a man and a brother," an unsympathetic smile— unless he happens to remember that those were the earliest days of steam on sea and land, and that journeys from England to any part of the Continent were no light ...
— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood
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... time Laurentius was archbishop, and for the sorrowfulness which he had on account of the king's unbelief he was minded to forsake this country entirely, and go over sea; but St. Peter the apostle scourged him sorely one night, because he wished thus to forsake the flock of God, and commanded him to teach boldly the true faith to the king; and ...
— The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle • Unknown
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Words linked to "Sorrowfulness" :   poignancy, sorrowful, woe, sorrow, woefulness, ruthfulness, unhappiness, plaintiveness, mourning, poignance, bereavement, mournfulness, sadness


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