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dolente

British  
/ dɒˈlɛntɪ /

adjective

  1. music (to be performed) in a sorrowful manner

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It looked so pure and holy, that it seemed like the light from an angel's wings at the portals of the "cittá dolente."

From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Here and there a tinge of foreshadowing pain appears, as the song sounds on high, espressivo dolente.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp

Dole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske

The inscription implies that all the world sorrowed at his death: "Orbe dolente Pater ... ruit."

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See by W. D. (Walter Debenham) Sweeting

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