For a time, the Eastern Counties Railway had a somewhat sad career. It seems rather sad to me, the only real satisfaction of which is the hope of not sowing the wind. Meanwhile, he lets out the saddest cries and pours out his helpless rage on the tree that serves as his refuge. She came just in time to put to sleep our sad philosophy of showing women sacrifice and the instrument of fate. Dolorous is not a woman`s name (it`s Dolores), it`s an adjective that describes someone who shows great sadness. If your friend Dolores is crying over a lost puppy, you might call her sad Dolores. The farmer, half surprised by Anthony`s sad nod, shouted, “What`s wrong, man?” “No medicine can prevail until the same painful tooth has been pulled from the roots. When dolorous first appeared around 1400, it was associated with physical pain – and this is appropriate since the word is a descendant of the Latin word dolor, which means both “pain” and “sorrow.” (Today, dolor is also an English word meaning “sorrow.”) When British surgeon John Banister wrote the above quote in 1578, sad could mean “causing pain” or “stressful, sad.” “The death of the earl [was] sad for all Englishmen,” wrote the English historian Edward Hall a few decades earlier. The feeling of “causing pain” has coexisted with the meaning “sad” for centuries, but nowadays its use is rare. Music written in a minor key can have a painful effect. It sounds really sad and can make you feel the same. Dolorous shares the same root with the word, condolences, an expression of compassion with someone`s sadness. Both words come from the Latin word for grief, dolor, which means pain in modern Spanish.
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