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   dolour

   /ˈdɒlə/

   noun

   • 1. a state of great sorrow or distress: literary "they squatted, hunched in their habitual dolour"

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting both physical and mental pain or distress): via Old French from Latin dolor ‘pain, grief’.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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   What is the meaning of Dolour?

   • dolour - (poetry) painful grief. dolor. poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form. brokenheartedness, grief, heartache, heartbreak - intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

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   What does douloureux mean?

   • By surface analysis, douleur + -eux . douloureux (feminine douloureuse, masculine plural douloureux, feminine plural douloureuses) “ douloureux ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. From Old French dolerous and its variants, from Late Latin dolōrōsus, from Latin dolor .

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   What is a doublet of Dol?

   • The English word is a doublet of dol . dolour ( countable and uncountable, plural dolours)( British spelling) (chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow . ( countable, economics, ethics) In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people 's outcomes .

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   What is CW's view on 'Dolour'?

   • CW has to say it finds this information quite dolour-inducing. She sees him as a deeply troubled man suffering from a species of selfdoubt which he called 'dolour' and we might call depression. Read about the team of authors behind Collins Dictionaries. Poetic grief or sorrow....

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   Dolour definition: grief or sorrow. See examples of DOLOUR used in a sentence.

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   Dolour is a poetic word for grief or sorrow, from Latin dolēre. Learn how to pronounce, use and spell dolour, and see examples and synonyms.

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   Jul 1, 2024 · dolour. Other forms: dolours. Definitions of dolour. noun. (poetry) painful grief. synonyms: dolor. see more.

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   From Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”)[and other forms], from Anglo-Norman dolour, Old French dolour, dolor, dulur (“pain”) (modern French douleur (“pain; distress”)), from Latin...

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   (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒlə/, /ˈdəʊlə/

   (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊlɚ/

   Homophone: dollar (some accents)

   Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ), -əʊlə(ɹ)

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   dolour (countable and uncountable, plural dolours) (British spelling) 1. (chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow. 1.1. Synonyms: infelicity, joylessness, sadness, unhappiness, unjoy 1.2. Antonyms: elation, felicity, happiness, joy 1.1. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene.[…], London: […] [John ...

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   Define dolour. dolour synonyms, dolour pronunciation, dolour translation, English dictionary definition of dolour. n. Chiefly British Variant of dolor.

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   Dolour is a noun that means sorrow, grief, or pain. It is an obsolete word that comes from Middle English and has the same origin as dolor.

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   dolour meaning, definition, what is dolour: great sadness: Learn more.