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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. liii. 3 We desireden hym dispisid, & þe laste of men man of sorewis & witinge infirmyte.]

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. Table sig. ¶¶¶ii^v/2 He is a man of sorrowes, and hath felt calamities.

1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. v. viii. 444 Christ himself, who was called the man of sorrowes.

a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) vii. 128 Was it foretold that he should be a Man of Sorrows; and was ever Sorrow like his Sorrow?

1749 C. Wesley Hymns & Sacred Poems I. xxiv. 60 Thou Man of Sorrows, say: Thy God why didst Thou inshrine In such a Clod of Earth as Mine.

1819 Christian Disciple Sept. 380 Christ is declared to be at once the Creator of the universe and a man of sorrows.

1857 J. Hamilton Lessons from Great Biogr. 170 The Man of Sorrows was not the man who would upbraid a breaking heart.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 129 No longer the Man of Sorrows, no longer the Good Shepherd.

1978 E. Colledge & J. Walsh in Julian of Norwich Showings 49 It is not the Man of Sorrows whom Julian is shown here, but a joyful, glorified Christ.

2004 New Republic 8 Mar. 19/2 The lacerated Jesus became a commonplace of religious art, in which the Man of Sorrows plaintively displayed his wounds, which were venerated.