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Dolent vs Docent - What's the difference?

dolent | docent |

As adjectives the difference between dolent and docent

is that dolent is (archaic) sad, sorrowful while docent is instructive; that teaches.

As a noun docent is

a teacher or lecturer at some american colleges or universities.

dolent

English

Adjective

(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.
  • docent

    English

    (wikipedia docent)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Instructive; that teaches.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teacher or lecturer at some American colleges or universities.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 1212:
  • Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
  • (chiefly, US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
  • The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Louvre.