Dolour vs Dolor - What's the difference?
dolour | dolor | Alternative forms |
(literary) A painful grief or suffering.
:* 1605', But for all this thou shalt have as many '''dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear II.ii
* 1874 , , X
Dolor is a alternative form of dolour.
Dolor is a descendant of dolour.
In literary terms the difference between dolour and dolor
is that dolour is a painful grief or suffering while dolor is sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.dolour
English
Alternative forms
* dolorNoun
(en noun)- Perchance a congregation to fulfil
- Solemnities of silence in this doom,
- Mysterious rites of dolour and despair
- Permitting not a breath or chant of prayer?
