Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DOL'OR-OUS
DOL'OR-OUS, a. [L. dolor, pain, grief.]
- Sorrowful; doleful; dismal; impressing sorrow or grief; as, a dolorous object; a dolorous region. – Hooker. Milton.
- Painful; giving pain. Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear. More.
- Expressing pain or grief; as, dolorous sighs.
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