dolor

Noun
Synonyms: dolour

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. (poetry) painful griefSynonyms: dolourType of grief, heartache
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

do′lor noun

Origin: OE. dolor, dolur, dolour, F. douleur, L. dolor, fr. dolere. See 1st Dole.

Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] poetic

Of death and dolor telling sad tidings.— Edmund Spenser

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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