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lugubrious, a.|l(j)uːˈgjuːbrɪəs|
[f. as prec. + -ous.]
Characterized by, expressing or causing mourning; doleful, mournful, sorrowful.
1601Dent Pathw. Heaven (1831) 305 The sea shall roar and make a noise in most doleful and lugubrious manner. 1639Hammond Pastors Motto Wks. 1684 IV. 546 To act no passionate, lugubrious, tragical part. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. vi. 267 The severe graces of Virtue must have a lugubrious appearance to them. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 567 A grotesque and lugubrious farce was played on the day of his quitting the establishment. 1877Black Green Past. xxi. (1878) 173 The enforced silence of the room was rather a painful and lugubrious business. 1900Q. Rev. July 113 The lugubrious fresco in the Campo Santo at Pisa.
Hence luˈgubriously adv., luˈgubriousness.
1848Webster, Lugubriously. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxv. 49 It points lugubriously to the fact, that the ways of dishonour are not always ways of pleasantness. 1879R. H. Elliot Written on Foreheads I. 16 They did not cultivate lugubriousness in general. 1900H. W. Smyth Greek Melic Poets 389 Some of his [Bacchylides'] lugubriousness is no doubt mere literary veneer. |