tristful
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of tristful
1485–95; obsolete trist sad, gloomy (< Old French triste < Latin tristis ) + -ful
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In the first, and in the new reading: Heaven's face glows with tristful visage; and, Heaven's face is thought-sick.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
Ye have made me, ye have made me Querulous of you, that care not, Eyes so tristful, yet I dare not Say to what ye have betrayed me.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Again prevailed the tristful dirge of the pines.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
The Autumn wind was booming round the plantation and sweeping up the broad path down the hillside with a skelter of leaves that gave a wild gaiety to the usually tristful scene.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
Heaven's face doth glow, Yea, this solidity and compound mass With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
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