grief
noun
keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
griefless
-
a word derived from
grief.
Example Sentences
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“Let them have a night’s sleep behind them,” she thought, “one more night of griefless sleep.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
What's to become of us?—I speak for many, Idle and "Unemployed," but oh! not griefless; Please, please kind Government to spare a penny, Or yet Trafalgar Square shall rouse the Briefless.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Were that as sweet, when all the tale were told, As this calm griefless princedom that I hold And silent power?
From Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
And I will raise my eyes above— Above a world of sin and woe, Where sinless, griefless, near her Son, Sits Mary on her throne of snow.
From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by David Hunter Blair
On the contrary, there was no other man in the city, we are bold to affirm, of so much as half his years, who enjoyed so many lightsome and griefless moments as himself.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
