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Doleite vs Dolente - What's the difference?

doleite | dolente |

As a noun doleite

is somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.

As an adverb dolente is

a direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.

doleite

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) Somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.
  • * 2005 , Monica Barry, Youth Policy And Social Inclusion (page 123)
    • Ordinary out-of-school youth make a similar distinction between themselves and the slapheads, doleites or dossers.
  • * 2011 , Jon Gaunt, Undaunted: The True Story Behind the Popular Shock-Jock
    • He was a poet and from a completely different class than us bunch of working-class doleites

    dolente

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) A direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.
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