Lachrymose vs Dolorous - What's the difference?
lachrymose | dolorous |
Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
* {{quote-book
, year=1927
, author=Thornton Wilder
, title=The Bridge of San Luis Rey
, page=69
, passage=It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.}}
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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As adjectives the difference between lachrymose and dolorous
is that lachrymose is tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying while dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad.lachrymose
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* lachrymatory * lachrymosely * lachrymosity * unlachrymosedolorous
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* (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.