Doleful vs Dolent - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between doleful and dolent

is that doleful is filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness while dolent is sad, sorrowful.

(er)

Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.

(en adjective)

(archaic) Sad, sorrowful.

* 1874 ,

Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city

Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,

With horror ever deepening from the first.

* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 148:

*:‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.