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Sorrow vs Sorrowly - What's the difference?

sorrow | sorrowly |

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

  • (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.

    References

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    sorrowly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , passage=Christie walked home very sadly and sorrowly ; he was in no haste to meet old Treffy's anxious, inquiring eyes. }}