Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to a funeral.

* , Episode 12:

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

* 2000 , (Goerge RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 474:

Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.

Similar to a funeral, such as dignified or solemn.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Solemnly or ponderously sad.

* 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:

Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,

Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,

Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.

* 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:

. . . Hell itself will pass away,

And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.

* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:

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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* 2001 June 24, Stefan Kanfer, " Author, Teacher, Witness," Time :

As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.