Sorrow vs Sorrowly - What's the difference?
sorrow | sorrowly |
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
* Rambler
(countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
To feel or express grief.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
*, II.12:
(poetic, archaic) with sorrow, full of sorrow
* {{quote-book, year=1797, author=An English Lady, title=A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Time passes sorrowly , rather than slowly; and my thoughts, without being amused, are employed. }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Mrs. O. F. Walton, title=Christie's Old Organ, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Christie walked home very sadly and sorrowly ; he was in no haste to meet old Treffy's anxious, inquiring eyes. }}
As a noun sorrow
is unhappiness, woe.As a verb sorrow
is to feel or express grief.As an adverb sorrowly is
with sorrow, full of sorrow.sorrow
English
Noun
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow .
Verb
(en verb)- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- 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.
References
* *sorrowly
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Adverb
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