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sorrow | sorrowfully |

As a noun sorrow

is (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.

As a verb sorrow

is to feel or express grief.

As an adverb sorrowfully is

in a sorrowful manner, done with sorrow and regret.

sorrow

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
  • * Rambler
    • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
  • (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
    • Parting is such sweet sorrow .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To feel or express grief.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
    • ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
  • To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
  • *, II.12:
    • It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.

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    sorrowfully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a sorrowful manner, done with sorrow and regret.
  • * 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
    • Sorrowfully Dorothy left the Throne Room and went back where the Lion and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were waiting to hear what Oz had said to her. "There is no hope for me," she said sadly, "for Oz will not send me home until I have killed the Wicked Witch of the West; and that I can never do."