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Dolent vs Olent - What's the difference?

dolent | olent |

As adjectives the difference between dolent and olent

is that dolent is sad, sorrowful while olent is scented.

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.

    • Related terms

    * dolour * dolorous ----

    olent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • scented
    • (Webster 1913) ----