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▪ I. sorrowing, vbl. n.|ˈsɒrəʊɪŋ|
[f. sorrow v.]
The action of the verb; mourning, lamentation.
a1023Wulfstan Hom. 114 Ðær is sorᵹung & sarᵹung and a singal heof. a1300Cursor M. 1269, I haue liued so mani a yere Ai in strijf and soruuing stad. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xvi. 53 Sykyng, sorewyng, ant thoht, Tho thre me han in bale broht. 1370–80Vis. St. Paul 223 in O.E. Misc. 229 Of heore serwyng was muche wondur. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 59 Their voycys of wepyng and sorowyng was exaltyd and lyfte vppe. 1530Palsgr. 273/1 Sorowing or wayling, deploration. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iii. 5 They..bring vs bale and bitter sorrowings. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. i, Her beauty was the sting, That caused all that instant sorrowing. 1721Waterland Serm. bef. Sons of Clergy (1722) 36 Amidst our Sorrowings for the Ravages made by Avarice at Home. 1807Wordsw. White Doe vii. 125 This lovely chronicler of things Long past, delights and sorrowings. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. II. xxxi. 278 Sorrowing is your sauce; you can take nothing without it.
▪ II. sorrowing, ppl. a.|ˈsɒrəʊɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That sorrows or mourns; mournful.
c1615Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems xii. 3 My sorowing sighes..do not dispyse. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 296 The condition of all sorrowing Penitents. 1787Burns Ode Birthday Pr. Chas. Edward 15 We solemnize this sorrowing natal day, To prove our loyal truth. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam ii. x, The sorrowing gale Waked in those ruins gray its everlasting wail! 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. ii, Known by and by as Girondins, to the sorrowing wonder of the world. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. vi, He had not the nerve to go into the cottage and face that sorrowing widow.
Hence ˈsorrowingly adv.
1865Athenæum 8 July 43/1 The great admiral then sorrowingly alludes to the difficulty of discharging the ships. |