dolour

/ ˈdɒlə /

noun

1. poetic.
   grief or sorrow

Word History and Origins

Origin of dolour¹

C14: from Latin, from dolēre to grieve

Example Sentences

T will be your death, and you are not the man we could see perish without grief and dolour.

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But for the shame and dolour he would not ride to King Arthur's court, but rode another way.

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So Sir Safere departed from his brother with the greatest dolour and sorrow that ever made knight.

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I cannot brook the thought of his lying there in sore pain and dolour, he who has had so sad a life, baulked of his true love.

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One day she chanced in her dolour to lean heavily upon the door of her prison.

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