Dolorous vs Dolent - What's the difference?
dolorous | dolent | Related terms |
Solemnly or ponderously sad.
* 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:
* 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
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(archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
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* 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.
Dolent is a related term of dolorous.
As adjectives the difference between dolorous and dolent
is that dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad while dolent is sad, sorrowful.dolorous
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
- Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
- Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
- . . . Hell itself will pass away,
- And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
- From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
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- As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.
dolent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city
- Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,
- With horror ever deepening from the first.