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dolent, a. (n.) arch.|ˈdəʊlənt|
Also 5 dolant(e, dolaunt.
[a. F. dolent grieving, sad, suffering (11th c.), ad. L. dolēnt-em, pr. pple. of dolēre to grieve; also (in Caxton) a. OF. dolant, pr. pple. of doloir, douloir to grieve.]
A. adj.
1. Sorrowing, grieving; sorrowful, sad.
c1450Lonelich Grail xxvi. 64 A sorweful womman, and ful dolente. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn vi. 25 The damoysell dolaunt. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 169 All the other knyghtes were ryghte dolent for his sake. 1634Ford P. Warbeck iii. iv, The king is angry..And the passionate duke Effeminately dolent. 1868Longfellow tr. Dante's Inferno iii. 1 Through me the way is to the city dolent! Through me the way is to eternal dole.
2. Expressing or indicating grief or sorrow; mournful, doleful.
1490Caxton Eneydos xviii. 68 Dolaunte lamentacyons rewthes and complayntes. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5150 With dolent Lamentatioun. 1882Illustr. Lond. News 25 Mar. 278 Why these dolent reflections?
†3. Attended with or causing sorrow or grief; grievous, distressing. Obs.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. iii. vii. 181 The dolent and sorowfull deth comyng oftymes sodaynly. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxx. 7 Him..Quhome dolent deith hes laitly done deuoir.
†B. as n. A sorrowful or suffering person. rare.
1530Calisto & M. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 82 Is this the dolent for whom thou makist petition?
Hence ˈdolently adv.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII (1809) 782, I thynke never Prince tooke it more sorrowfully nor more dolently. |