dolour
US dolor
/ (ˈdɒlə) /
noun
poetic grief or sorrow
Origin of dolour
1C14: from Latin, from dolēre to grieve
Words Nearby dolour
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How to use dolour in a sentence
T will be your death, and you are not the man we could see perish without grief and dolour.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche | Anatole FranceBut for the shame and dolour he would not ride to King Arthur's court, but rode another way.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MalorySo Sir Safere departed from his brother with the greatest dolour and sorrow that ever made knight.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MaloryI 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.
Grisly Grisell | Charlotte M. YongeOne day she chanced in her dolour to lean heavily upon the door of her prison.
Legends & Romances of Brittany | Lewis Spence
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