dolour
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Etymology [edit]
Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor (“pain, grief”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
dolour (plural dolours)
- (literary) A painful grief or suffering.
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- 1605, But for all this thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. — William Shakespeare, King Lear II.ii
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, X
- Perchance a congregation to fulfil
- Solemnities of silence in this doom,
- Mysterious rites of dolour and despair
- Permitting not a breath or chant of prayer?
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Translations [edit]
painful grief or suffering
Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
dolour f (oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur
- qi purroit penser ou ymaginer la dolour et les peynes qe vous, ma douz Dame, endurastes.
- Who could think of or imagine the pain and the suffering that you, my dear lady, have endured.
