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tristesse
Also 4 tristesce, 5 trystesse, (tristresse), 6 tristes. Now only as F. |tristɛs|.
[ME. a. OF. tristesce, -tece, -trece (12th c. in Godef. Compl.), F. tristesse, = Prov. tristicia, tristessa, Sp., Pg. tristeza, It. tristezza:—L. tristitia sadness, f. tristis sad.]
Sadness, grief, melancholy.
1390Gower Conf. II. 115 He withinne his thought conceiveth Tristesce, and so himself deceiveth. c1425Lydg. Dance Macabre x, Mine old ioyes been turned into tristesse. 1485Caxton Paris & V. 11 He ledde hys lyf in grete trystesse and sorowe. c1489― Blanchardyn iv. 20 Þ⊇ palays and the cyte were tourned from Ioye vnto tristresse. 1547Hooper Declar. Christ v. E iij b, Ezeb..signifithe ether affliction, rebellion, sorow, tristes, trauel, or peyne. 1797Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) I. 6 If it will help to banish Tristesse, let me again assure you that every thought of my heart shall be directed to insure your happiness. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 162 Nature..too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse. |