Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SOR'ROW, v.i. [Sax. sarian, sargian, sorgian, Goth. saurgan, to be anxious, to sorrow.]

To feel pain of mind in consequence of the actual loss of good, or of frustrated hopes of good, or of expected loss of happiness; to grieve; to be sad. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance. – 1 Cor. vii. I desire no man to sorrow for me. Hayward. Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they should see his face no more. – Acts xx.