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sorrown.adj. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with West Frisian soarch , Old Dutch sorga care, concern (Middle Dutch sorghe , sorge attention, effort, care, anxiety, fear, danger, concern, sadness, Dutch zorg anxiety, worry, fear, danger, risk, difficulty), Old Saxon sorga , soraga care, concern, sadness (Middle Low German sorge , (in compounds) sorch- sadness, grief, mourning, worry, distress, anxiety, fear, danger, need, effort, attention), Old High German sorga worry, care, woe, concern, effort, attention (Middle High German sorge worry, anxiety, concern, fear, danger, grief, German Sorge anxiety, worry, distress, concern, care), Old Icelandic sorg woe, grief, bereavement, care, worry, Old Swedish sorgh distress, affliction, torment, sadness, anxiety (Swedish sorg sadness, distress, grief, affliction, worry, mourning), Old Danish sorgh , sorg grief, care (Danish sorg grief), Gothic saurga sadness, care, worry < the same Germanic base as sorrow v., probably < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit sūrkṣ- to care about, Early Irish serg illness, decline, Church Slavonic sragŭ terrifying, terrible, Polish srogi terrible, fierce, severe, Lithuanian sirgti to be ill.In Old English usually a strong feminine; however, a strong masculine by-form is also occasionally attested. The β. forms show unrounding of o to a (compare A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §156), perhaps partly influenced by association with Old English sār sore n.1 and sore adj.1, sārig sorry adj. (see discussion below). The γ. forms (with stem vowel e or eo ) probably show the influence of the β. forms at sorrow v. (see discussion at that entry, and compare R. Jordan Handb. der mittelenglischen Grammatik (ed. 2,1934) §36 note 3). The extension of meaning in early Middle English from mental and emotional suffering to physical suffering or pain (compare sense A. 3) probably reflects association with (etymologically unrelated) sore n.1 and sore adj.1, which expressed both ideas in the Germanic languages. These words began to converge formally from the beginning of the Middle English period, with the rounding of Old English long ā to long open ō , but they were clearly closely associated with one another well before this date, and are frequently attested in collocation in Old English and Middle English (compare e.g. quots. OE4 at sense A. 1aα. , OE3 at sense A. 2a, a1200 at sense A. 1aβ. , a1250 at sense A. 1aε. , c1275 at sense A. 1aγ. , a1450 at sense A. 2a, etc.). The history of this word is also closely connected with that of sorry adj., which is derived from the Germanic base of sore adj.1 In the Middle English period, sorry adj. underwent phonological changes such that the common semantic ground shared by these words in the field of mental or emotional suffering was coupled with a degree of formal convergence: for details of the phonology and discussion of the association of the two words, see further sorry adj. In particular, reflexes of Old English inflected forms of sorrow n. with palatalized g (as e.g. soreȝe, soriȝe, sorye at α. forms) can be difficult to distinguish from those of sorry adj. in some contexts, as e.g. in use of sorrow adj. (see sense B.) and in use as the first element of compounds and derivatives (compare e.g. ζ. forms at sorrowful adj., n., and adv. and see discussion at sorriness n.). A. n. 1. the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] α. OE 1068 Ne ic þæs deaðes hafu on þas seocnan tid sorge on mode. OE (2008) 1322 Ne frin þu æfter sælum! Sorh is geniwod Denigea leodum. OE 103 Ne biþ þær sar ne gewinn,..ne sorg ne wop. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1900) Pref. 3 Þær beforan minre heortan eagan swutollice comon ealle þa gedonan unriht, þe gewunedon, þæt hi me sar & sorge ongebrohton. lOE (Domitian A.viii) anno 870 Ealne his timan wa[s] gewinn & sorhge ofer [Englaland]. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) (2009) I. vii. 252 Þa ilcan [woruldsælða]..þa þe næfre nanne mon buton sorge ne forlætað. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 63 Þe saule of him is forloren and þe sorȝe is him biforen. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) l. 392 (MED) Worldes vanite..wurðeð al to sorhe & to sar on ende. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 262 Isar & insoreȝe. 1340 (1866) 71 Oþer ine zorȝe oþer ine blisse wyþoute endynge. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) v. l. 512 His echedaies fantasie Of sorghe is evere aliche grene. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 249 Wheþire it be sele or soroȝe. ?c1450 tr. (1906) 1 Full[e] of sorugh [e] and gladnesse, as mani lovers ben. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] > personified a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 50 To Loue y putte pleyntes mo, hou Sykyng me haþ siwed..Þoht me þrat to slo..ant Serewe sore in balful bende þat he wolde..me lede. c1400 (?c1380) l. 1080 Þer was solace & songe wher sorȝ has ay cryed. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4995 Labour and travaile Logged ben with sorwe and woo That neuer out of hir [sc. Elde's] court goo. 1554–9 (Roxb.) 1 Sorrowe hath caught me in her sner. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1593) iii. sig. Ff6v Alas sorrowe, nowe thou hast the full sack of my conquered spirits. 1621 R. Burton i. ii. iii. iv. 129 Sorrowe..The mother and daughter of Melancholy. 1684 J. Banks ii. i. 25 Sorrow has plaid the Tyrant, Plow'd up this lovely Field where Beauties grew, And quite transform'd it to a naked Fallow. 1757 T. Gray Ode II ii. i, in 16 And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind. 1782 W. Cowper Truth in 443 Sorrow might..Bury herself in solitude profound. 1812 Ld. Byron ii. lxxxvi. 108 How selfish Sorrow ponders on the past. 1850 Ld. Tennyson lix O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me? View more context for this quotation 1920 H. Begbie I. x. 122 This rough-wrought son of sorrow and distress. 1995 L. Hogan (1997) 159 A kind of sorrow stood by the bed. 2. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] > cause of sorrow OE 86 Swa eal manna bearn sorgum sawað, swa eft ripað, cennað to cwealme. OE (2008) 149 Torn geþolode wine scyldenda [read Scyldinga], weana gehwelcne, sidra sorga. OE 5 Æghwylc man sceolde mid sare on þas world cuman, & her on sorhgum beon, & mid sare of gewitan. lOE tr. Honorius Augustodunensis Elucidarium in R. D.-N. Warner (1917) 142 Bitere byð þa saregan þe heo sculen on helle on ecnysse geðrowigen, for heora unmihte. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 71 Lif and saule beon iborȝen and baðe ilesed ut of sorȝen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 6153 Ah sone þer-æfter sorȝen [c1300 Otho sorhþe] heom weoren ȝiueðen. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 68 Pride..made ilc sorge and euerilc bale. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 5923 Þe þridde ȝer..of aildredes kinedom, Þe biginning of þis sorwe to engelonde verst com. c1390 (?a1325) Long Charter of Christ (Vernon) A. l. 96 in F. J. Furnivall (1901) ii. 644 Ȝif eny serwe beo lyk to myn. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 7 Now of fiue sorowes..Henry [of Huntingdon] in his writyng telles what þei ware. c1400 (?c1380) l. 563 Quen þe swemande sorȝe soȝt to his hert. a1450 (1885) 93 And sithen what sorouse sor [MS for] warre sene. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. (Caxton) (1877) lf. 4v The wiese men bere their greues & sorowes as they were swete vnto them. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. XXXi Many mo sorowes dyd teare & thryll throwe her hert. 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara (1568) 300 There is great difference from the cares and sorrowes of weomen to that of men. 1604 W. Shakespeare iv. v. 76 When sorrowes come, they come not single spyes, But in battalians. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil 210 The Day, but not their Sorrows, ended thus. 1713 R. Steele in 12 Mar. 2/2 All Sorrows which can arrive at me are comprehended in the Sense of Guilt and Pain. 1746 W. Dunkin tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace i. ii. 68 Nor House, nor Lands,..Can..drive one Sorrow from his anxious Breast. 1827 R. Pollok I. i. 34 Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. 1892 B. F. Westcott 270 Every sorrow and pain is an element of discipline. 1920 M. Mitchell Let. 26 Mar. in (1985) 75 The same wonderful pal to whom I could take every sorrow and joy in my little world and be sure of sympathy and understanding. 1979 C. Milne II. i. x. 97 All my life I have found reassurance in the countryside; have found sorrows and anxieties benefitting from a walk through a meadow. 2001 T. Umrigar 173 In the wings lurked unimaginable sorrows and heartaches. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Weep no more,... For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead. 1821 P. B. Shelley x. 10 Our love, our hope, our sorrow, is not dead; See, on the silken fringe of his faint eyes [etc.]. 1869 S. M. Eckley 190 He was the sorrow that shrouded her youth. 1903 Sept. 503 My children are my sorrow! 1976 D. Lawson (title) Paul Morphy: the pride and sorrow of chess. 2001 C. Cobham tr. F. al-Takarli ii. 25 She wasn't Munira, my cousin... She was my sorrow, my painful past, my love, my longing. †3. the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1934) 40 (MED) Striken men þiderward..for to seo þet sorhe þet me walde leggen on hire leofliche bodi. c1300 St. Barnabas (Laud) l. 92 in C. Horstmann (1887) 29 Huy nomen þis holie man..And drowen him out of heore synagoge with seoruwe and pine i-novȝ. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxix. 841 Þe rede [celidony] helpeþ..aȝeins woodnes and aȝeins old sorwe. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. l. 42 He seyde in his sorwe on þe selue Rode, ‘Bothe fox & foule [etc.]’. a1425 (a1382) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Gen. xxxiv. 25 The thridde day, whanne the sorwe of the woundes is moost greuows. a1500 (?c1425) (1936) 226 (MED) They put the ysse to his feete, and he hadde there-by grete relesynge to his sorowe. c1580 ( tr. (1929) IV. ii. l. 10122 He plungit in the thikkest pres Quhare sa vndemous sorrow [Fr. ou si grant dolour] wes. 1652 No. 108. 1697 They who were smitten down and lay for dead, affirm they felt no sorrow at all. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] c1380 (1879) l. 1138 (MED) Alas! what sorwe haþ he don? a1450 (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 8592 Allas! traied we bene Of the ring bi my modre the Quene..; Som sorow she wirketh, wel wot I. c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 94 (MED) Schewe me my felownies and my defaultis..þat I mend my sarow. 1589 R. Hakluyt i. 19 Who yet notwithstanding as he was downe, mangled their feete and legges, and did the Sarracens much sorrow. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] ?c1250 in C. Brown (1932) 111 (MED) Wel ofte ich sike and sorwe make. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 5985 Na mon..weore..swa hærd-iheorted þe iherde þesne weop..þat his heorte neore særi for þan vnimete sorhȝen. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 322 (MED) Bi stille barn..blinne of þi sorwe. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10496 Whil she mened þus hir mone Wiþ wepe & sorwes mony one. 1490 W. Caxton tr. lii. 146 Thus lasted the sorowe thre dayes and thre nyghtes, that they neuer dyde ceasse. c1550 (1979) vi. 31 The dou croutit hyr sad sang that soundit lyik sorrou. 1593 W. Shakespeare sig. G Where they viewd ech others sorrow: Sorrow, that friendly sighs sought still to drye. View more context for this quotation 1603 R. Knolles 314 Then began their sorrowes afresh, with pittious scriching & teares. 1669 J. Dryden iv. 44 Prithee good Magistrate drink to her, and wipe sorrow from her eyes. 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer III. ix. 559 Down his white Beard a Stream of Sorrow flows. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace i. v. 106 Where from green wood the smothering flames arise, And with a smoky sorrow fill our eyes. 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in 31 She nothing said, but, pale and meek, Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain Of sorrows at his words. 1857 W. G. Simms viii. 99 Misgivings..caused her to..sink down upon her couch, and give way to a full flood of sorrows. 2009 B. Hill xl. 289 She could hear his sniffles as he tried to hold back the flood of sorrows. 5. As a term of imprecation used in various colloquial phrases. In later use chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional ( northern), often with the sense ‘devil’ (cf. similar uses at deuce n.1, mischief n., plague n., etc.). a. the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations c1330 in T. Wright (1839) 331 If hit be a pore lyf..Sorwe on that o frere that kepeth come thare. c1390 in C. Horstmann (1892) i. 353 Serwe on heore hedes, but þei wel do! a1450 (1885) 318 (MED) Now sorowe on such socoure as I haue soght. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iii. 33 Sorrow on thee, and all the packe of you. View more context for this quotation 1823 W. Scott II. vi. 145 To deal with William de la Marck, on whose name be sorrow! 1862 T. Carlyle III. xiii. ix. 528 The Duchess Dowager of Würtemburg also came, sorrow on her; a foolish talking woman. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 2157 (MED) Þer stod a gome of grece þat god gif him sorwe. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 2383 (MED) Of trecherye & vn-trawþe boþe bityde sorȝe & care! c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 308 But tel me this, why hidestow with sorwe The keyes of thy Cheste awey fro me? c1410 (c1350) (Harl. 7334) l. 881 Sorwe haue þat rekke! c1475 (1969) l. 426 Alasse, alasse..cum hethere wyth sorowe! 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. BBBviii If than the porter wolde come..and bydde vs walke forthe vnthryftes wt sorowe. c1560 T. Ingelend C j God guye the sorow. a1628 J. Carmichaell (1957) No. 1383 Sorrow fal the ghest the house is the war of. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ iii. 99 Sorrow to his thank, says the Deel, you make his Cup stand full even. 1788 (ed. 2) Sorrow go by me; a common expletive used by the presbyterians in Ireland. 1788 R. Burns in J. Johnson II. 204 But sorrow tak him that's sae mean. 1839 W. Carleton v. 96 Tut! go to the sarra. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud iv. ii, in 15 But sorrow seize me if ever that light be my leading star! 1896 P. A. Graham xvii. 258 Sorrow take the chance brought me among you! 1951 S. H. Bell i. iii. 30 Some of his good-nature had worn away. ‘Sorra take it for a bad beast, that!’ he declared. 1986 T. Enright tr. T. O'Crohan 50 ‘Sorrow to your heart!’ says Séamaisín. the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > negative c1450 (c1405) (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 617 But sorowe on þe sillable he shewed of þat matiere. 1568 Wyf of Auchtirmwchty 68 in W. T. Ritchie (1928) II. 322 The sorow crap of butter he gatt. 1573 in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. xxxix. 87 Persauing that, sorrow mair thay socht it. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. xlv. 379 But sorrow mair the men myt gett. a1605 R. Bannatyne (1836) 12 Sorrow a body heiris us but our selues. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ iii. 97 The sorrow a bit of your Dog will I be. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor x, in 3rd Ser. II. 250 Sorra a bit if I were him. 1825 T. C. Croker I. 152 ‘Sorrow a know I know,’ said Leary. 1865 C. J. Lever lii. 375 The sorrow a word ever crossed your lips. 1898 15 Jan. 7/3 An sorrow a thing wis haudin' dem bit rust an' da peerie bit o' natch 'at wis cut in a bit. 1924 A. D. H. Smith ii. 22 I was going out into the wicked world, and sorra a look at wickedness have I had yet. a1953 E. O'Neill (1994) iv. 78 Nora. There's news of himself? Maloy. Sorra a bit. a1631 R. Bruce Upon Affair of Gowrie in (1843) 193 The Earl..said—‘What sorrow means all this haste?’ ?1772 (ed. 3) iii. 6 What a sorrow aielse you? 1796 16 What the sorro' way? D'ye think that I can watch her aye? 1848 W. Carleton xxi. 234 What the sorra could have come over him, or tempted him to vote as he did? 1861 R. Leighton (ed. 2) 89 ‘Guidwife,’ quoth John, ‘did ye see that moose? Whar sorra was the cat?’ 1907 S. MacManus 29 He couldn't understand what the sorra reason they had for wishing to see the outside of his phiz. 1911 J. Brandane xxiv. 207 As kindly a man and as harmless as ever I saw. What the sorrow harm has he done them? 1998 S. Blackhall in 51 15 Fit the sorra possessed them tae bigg a tinny monstrosity like yon? 1756 M. Calderwood (1884) vi. 151 The holydays play the sorrow with the poor people. 1839 W. Carleton iii. 57 Her people's as proud as the very sarra. 1887 J. Service ii. viii. 219 She should been brunt, the auld limb o' the sorrow! 1912 G. Cunningham 77 The sorra 's in the kye. society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 1735 Þou has samed..a selly nounbre..Of laddis & of losengers & of litill theuys, Slike sary soroȝis as þi-selfe. 1816 W. Scott II. x*. 276 Get out o' the gate, ye little sorrow! 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in 2nd Ser. II. 96 ‘Ye're a leeing auld sorrow then,’ replied the fair one. 1839 T. Hood 53 I'm as hoarse as a crow, with screaming for ye, you young sorrow! 1896 ‘L. Keith’ v. 78 ‘That wee sorra’ of a baker's boy with the dinner-rolls. 1900 29 Dec. He's a coorse nyarbin' sorra o' a mannie. 1933 J. H. Smythe 16 Some said the aul' sorra wis sib tae the De'il. B. adj.the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [adjective] 1496 (c1410) (de Worde) i. liii. sig. ev/2 Judas was sorowe therof & grutched. c1599 tr. A. de Ercilla (1964) xi. 32 The people were sorrow to see him a partie in thatt Exercise. 1608 W. Shakespeare xx. 249 I am only sorrow he had no other deathsman. View more context for this quotation 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Loves Adventures ii. iii. xxvi, in 64 I am sorrow for that, for now he may tell tales out of School. 1756 Earl of Chesterfield World 30 Sept. in (1775) 370 I am very sorrow to be obliged to own, that there is not a more irritable part of our species, than my brother authors. 1792 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. xxvii, in IV. 150 ‘I am sorrow [earlier edd. sorry] for that,’ cries the scrivener. 1826 9 Aug. 4/2 The weavers assembled, I am sorrow to say, presented a most wretched appearance. 1862 J. H. Pardington Let. 29 Dec. in C. P. Lassen 53 I am sorrow for Old Tim Chamberlin. 1916 157 1195/2 I am sorrow that I have got in such shape. 1940 in N. J. Martin-Purdue & C. L. Purdue (1996) i. i. 37 Well, I felt so sorrow for her 'en I kept going over to see her along. 2006 D. J. Williams v. 87 Repentance is..saying you are sorrow for the sin you have committed. Phrasesa1250 (?c1200) (Maidstone) (1955) 94 (MED) Soreȝe ȝif þu hauist & ten areȝe hit sed, bi-foren he þe bimenid, bi-hindin he þe scarned. a1350 in B. J. Whiting & H. W. Whiting (1968) 155 (MED) The ende of bliz is sorege. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 374 (MED) Many hauyn glad hancel at þe morw And to hem or euyn comþ mochyl sorw. c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson (1842) 28 Bettur sayd soro thenne sene! 1589 L. Wright 29 A pound of sorrow will not pay an ounce of debt. 1600 T. Dekker sig. B4v The third [penny] shal wash our soules at parting (for sorrow is drie). 1639 J. Clarke 279 Sorrow and an evill life, Maketh soon an old wife. 1670 J. Ray 24 Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. 1732 T. Fuller 243 When Sorrow is asleep, wake it not. 1788 (ed. 2) Sorrow shall be his sops, he shall repent this. 1834 M. Blessington (ed. 2) I. xx. 246 A pound of sorrow they say never paid an ounce of debt, not that I have any debts, God be thanked! 1855 J. W. Barber 248 He that swims in sin, must sink in sorrow. 1912 Jan. 416/2 When sorrow is asleep, wake it not. 1982 H. H. Glassie 472 When people see magpies flying they say, ‘One for sorrow, two for joy’. 2003 R. Gilmore & L. Besser II. i. 59 Remember that an ounce of caution may prevent a pound of sorrow! the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief [verb (intransitive)] ?c1250 [see sense A. 4]. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. l. 16 Mourne þou not, Meede, ne make þou no serwe. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 3218 Grete dole þay mak, somtyme, and sarowe; For þai may nathyng begg ne borowe. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 38 Þe mounkes made mykill sorowe at his dying. 1484 W. Caxton tr. i. xviii [The lion] beganne to crye and make sorowe. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. cxlv. 174 Whane they within Calays sawe their kynge depart, thay made great sorowe. 1594 W. Shakespeare iii. i. 119 Witnes the sorrow that their sister makes. View more context for this quotation P3. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] > personified the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as sacrifice or victim the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as man a1382 (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 I. Table sig. ¶¶¶iiv/2 He is a man of sorrowes, and hath felt calamities. 1603 R. Rogers v. viii. 444 Christ himself, who was called the man of sorrowes. a1729 J. Rogers (1735) vii. 128 Was it foretold that he should be a Man of Sorrows; and was ever Sorrow like his Sorrow? 1749 C. Wesley I. xxiv. 60 Thou Man of Sorrows, say: Thy God why didst Thou inshrine In such a Clod of Earth as Mine. 1819 Sept. 380 Christ is declared to be at once the Creator of the universe and a man of sorrows. 1857 J. Hamilton 170 The Man of Sorrows was not the man who would upbraid a breaking heart. 1916 J. Joyce iii. 129 No longer the Man of Sorrows, no longer the Good Shepherd. 1978 E. Colledge & J. Walsh in Julian of Norwich 49 It is not the Man of Sorrows whom Julian is shown here, but a joyful, glorified Christ. 2004 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. 1843 J. Wilson On Genius & Char. Burns in R. Burns I. p. lviii Your more-in-sorrow-than-anger moralists. 1895 A. Cambridge xxiv. 250 His gentle silence provoked him to say as many insulting things as he could think of..; then he took the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger tone. 1918 (Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co.) May 25/1 We have assumed a ‘more in sorrow than in anger attitude’ that might do very well in the case of Mexico. 1965 G. McInnes xiv. 256 It was she who chilled us with reproachful more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger looks. 1990 18 Nov. 1/3 There is only an occasional more-in-sorrow-than-anger comment about those who have publicly denigrated him. 2009 V. McDermid 366 Paula shook her head, doing the ‘more in sorrow than in anger’ look. ‘See, there you go. Making yourself look like you're guilty of something before I've even asked your name and address.’ Compounds C1. Chiefly poetic and literary. OE 67 Ongunnon him þa sorhleoð galan earme on þa æfentide. OE 789 Þa hie fela spræcon sorhworda somed, sinhiwan twa. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 5541 Monie..menden to him heore sær & heore sorh-siðes. a1425 in M. Day (1921) 12 (MED) Thole me neuer to helle doun synk For my synnes..That me wil drawe to sorow steede. 1597 W. Shakespeare v. i. 106+3 Come wofull sorrow mates, Let vs together taste this bitter fate. View more context for this quotation 1602 J. Marston iv. v. sig. Iv Helpe me good sorrow-mates to giue him graue. 1838 E. Cook in Apr. 236 We murmur and droop should a sorrow-cloud stay. 1856 R. A. Vaughan I. 199 Therefore shalt thou..know no sorrow-smart. 1992 R. Tremain xi. 209 She thought, we're having a sorrow party. b. 1596 C. Fitzgeffry sig. G2v The sorow-sobbing sighes of extasie. 1596 M. Drayton sig. S4 She..curs'd her sorrow-seeing eye. 1601 J. Weever sig. D4v In a sorrow-sighing extasie. 1627 M. Drayton 32 Sorrow-ceasing sleepe..Vpon his Eye-lids stealingly doth creepe. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer VI. xxiv. 981 So spoke the Fair, with Sorrow-streaming Eye. 1754 J. Fortescue Ess. 2nd Sacred Harmony in (ed. 2) I. 65 Then as rising from the Ground Was heard a Sorrow-breathing sound; The black-brow'd Arches whispering round. 1820 J. Clare 154 That sad sorrow-ripening name—a Man. 1825 D. L. Richardson 97 Thy lay's sweet flow Of sorrow-breathing music. 1884 (U.S. Congress) 45 Acres who had ever thus been acted upon, embracing all shades, grades, and conditions of society, stood in sorrow-breathing silence, and with eyes bedewed in tears around his bier. 1891 F. T. Palgrave in 2 388 The soft security of sleep, The blessings of the night, These sorrow-streaming eyes in vain, In vain to rest invite. 1920 19 Jan. 67 This was a characteristic answer, showing the sorrow-sobbing heart of a great and true man. 1992 I. Banks ix. 229 After all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day. (b) 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas ii. i. 333 The dropsie-breeding, sorrow-bringing Psyllie. 1840 July 45/2 The undisciplined and sorrow-bringing children. 1909 E. A. Steiner i. vii. 109 I did not need to be told that the death angel had made his sorrow-bringing visitation. 2002 91 279 Maud, endangering her life and sacrificing love's fulfilment in her service to Ireland's sorrow-bringing ‘battles’, is immortalized as the ideal of feminine beauty, courage and nobility. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 4371 (MED) Nouþer honour nor pursut of vengaunce With sorwe makyng mow ben execut. 1485 (Caxton) xxi. xi. sig. eeiv Ye dysplese god with suche maner of sorow makyng. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. (1882–7) xi. 33 I dyd suffer it without any grete sorow makyng. 1605 W. C. tr. C. Paschal xix. 216 Neither the armed troupes, nor the enemy that hath possessed the field..is so much to bee feared by a Prince, as this sorrow making monster pleasure. 1869 E. Jolly II. ix. ii. 265 Perhaps..such sorrow-making is sinful. 1885 M. Thompson xi. 139 All the sorrow-making material on one side and all the joy-bringers on the other! 1955 6 362 He replied to the hermit who reproved him for such sorrow-making that his conscience was clear. 2007 S. Basu in M. C. 't Hart & D. Bos (2008) 104 Some found somber assurance of their eternal salvation through abundant sorrow-making. c. Instrumental. 1594 Selimus in Greene's in (Grosart) XIV. 263 Into whose calmie port My sorrow-beaten soule ioyes to ariue. 1761 R. Glover v. ii. 85 I hear no sound But sighs and groans from sorrow-beaten breasts. 1838 16 July 6/5 No doubt, poor sorrow-beaten creatures, they are ‘more sinned against than sinning’. 1920 R. Hughes ix. 238 The face that came down last was weather-wrung and sorrow-beaten, yet very kind withal. a1999 G. Shapiro (2004) 317 A group of them sat there, a sorrow-beaten band of arthritic old cockers. 1853 C. Swain v. 27 With a vision, sorrow blinded, turning to its beauteous face. 1951 4 May 7/3 Lift up your sorrow blinded eyes To the Cross—it stands there still. 1833 T. Keightley I. 180 She never forgot her sorrow-bound mother, But that grief is heavy I know. 1900 Dec. 544 Her sorrow..had accumulated within her sorrow-bound brain. 1994 (Nexis) 9 Sept. While the world gets darker and more and more sorrow-bound, there is a market in people who speak the language of the damned. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1590) iii. xii. sig. Pp6v When her breath..had by sobbes gotten into her sorow-closed breast. a1930 D. H. Lawrence in (1993) 940 She [sc. the moon] faintly faces Along her foot-searched way, her sorrow-closed eye Down the sky's steep stairs charting no track for her. 1594 S. Daniel Cleopatra v. ii, in (new ed.) sig. N2 Shee no sooner sees mee in the place, But straight her sorrow-clowded brow shee cleeres, Lightning a smile from out a stormy face. 1594 J. Sylvester sig. A3v With sigh-swolne hart and sorrow-clowded eies. 1769 Nov. 587/2 Affliction well'd her sorrow-clouded eye. 1844 Apr. 389/1 Mortal of the mournful brow, And sorrow clouded youth! 1993 H. Teller (ed. 2) 85 Early in the evening the snow began to fall. Late into the night it still hadn't stopped, and there was an eerie feeling that this was a sorrow-clouded harbinger. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas ii. ii. 387 So the care-charming honie..re-aduanceth sorrow-daunted harts. 1603 J. Davies Pref. 7 With stil-sweating sorrow-furrowed Browes. 1847 T. B. Thorpe xii. 93 Ill-repressed smiles of triumph..contrasted strangely with the dark, swarthy and sorrow-furrowed faces of the Mexicans. 1973 46 23 A strand of hair falls over his sorrow-furrowed forehead and is lifted by the wind. 1598 S. Rowlands sig. Hv Both knees and hands, with hearts and watry eies, All sorrow laden, tir'd with sighs and cries. 1659 W. Chamberlayne iv. v. 85 We..had libertie To look abroad, with sorrow-laden eyes. 1746 J. Warton vi. 27 Haste with thy poison'd dagger, haste, To pierce this sorrow-laden breast. 1849 M. Arnold 104 A heart sorrow-laden. 1969 J. R. R. Tolkien 16 Nov. (1995) 401 What a dreadful, fear-darkened, sorrow-laden world we live in. 2008 (Nexis) 11 July d4 In one sorrow-laden scene, set in Greece, the widower and orphan weep over their losses. a1644 F. Quarles (1645) Sol. v. 25 Nor let thy sorrow-melted heart bemone Thy banisht bondslave. 1794 R. Cumberland (ed. 2) iii. i. 35 Cannot you allow for a fond sorrow-melted [ed. 1 sorrow, melted] heart in me? a1887 B. R. Anderson in J. M. E. Saxby (1888) 36 Our hearts sorrow-melted and aching, Saw a strange mystic light in his eyes. ?1596 J. Dickenson sig. B These sorrow-seasond lines should firme abide. 1840 10 271 Nay, do not fear me; I am now sorrow-seasoned. 1890 Feb. 192/2 A wan weaver in an attic dim, Hopeless yet patient, so he may be fed With scanty store of sorrow-seasoned bread. 1647 T. Fuller v. xiv. 226 How many have beene sorrow-shot to their Heart? 1921 V. M. Masten vi. 199 Not the sorrow-shot eyes of his mother will stop him; nor will the tear-washed face of his wife. 2004 L. de Bernières (2005) xxv. 121 You came out..infected by her loneliness and stillness, and it made you nostalgic and sorrow-shot. 1812 G. Crabbe v. 100 With sorrow-shrunken face and hair upright. 1897 H. R. James tr. Boethius i. i. 4 The skin hangs loose and shrivelled On this sorrow-shrunken frame. 1954 A. Daniélou II. 42 Her reddened eyes are desperate, her sorrow-shrunken limbs are soiled with mud. 1789 26 Nov. 3/2 That strain is o'er—but Mem'ry ne'er shall fade; When erst it..charm'd the sorrow-stricken Soul from Pain. 1819 J. H. Payne v. i. 45 Look upon this sorrow-stricken form. 1929 F. Loesser Melancholy Me in R. Kimball & S. Nelson (2003) 3/2 I'm lovesick And sorrow-stricken, Melancholy me. 2001 (Nexis) 3 Feb. a21 The disconsolate, sorrow-stricken congregation worked its way through a snail's pace rendition of ‘God Will Take Care of You’. 1642 T. Fuller ii. vii. 79 Yet is it credibly averred that he never look'd on his infant-sonne Audectus but with grief, as sorrow-struck with some sad signe of ill successe he saw in his face. 1778 R. Cumberland ii. i. 31 One who bears The port and semblance of illustrious birth, Tho' sorrow-struck and waining with despair. 1844 C. J. Lever I. i. 9 Their grief is low and sorrow-struck. 1907 G. H. Brownell 350 Her pale and sorrow-struck looks are attributed naturally to the impending departure of her husband for the field. 2000 (Nexis) 1 Sept. 3 Teachers were prepared to lend support to sorrow-struck teens. 1597 C. Middleton iii. sig. D3v He suddainelie sollicited his old sorrow tyred sire, that hee would..graunt him leaue a while to forsake his natiue soyle. 1600 iv. sig. F3v Where shall I rest my sorrow tired limmes? 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. iv. 133 Sorrow-torn, thus (to himself) he cries. 1824 C. G. Ward xxvi. 596 This poor 'wildered head, and sorrow-torn heart, Her name or her story to none could impart. 1967 41 482/1 The author recalls to you, toward the end of this spirited, sorrow-torn work, that the Black Stone and its symbol are not dead. 2001 I. Seward i. 17 It was a sorrow-torn period for Diana's sons. 1629 F. Quarles ii. 93 She flew into his bosome and embrac'd, And her clos'd armes, his sorrow-wasted wast. 1798 in C. Taylor 115 Vain tears bedew thy sorrow-wasted cheek. 1824 2 466 A lady sits, with melancholy eyes, And locks of faded gold, Shading a wan and sorrow-wasted brow. 1909 G. S. Bryan tr. G. Hauptmann Assumption of Hannele in May 166 With an expression of deepest anguish upon her pallid, sick, sorrow-wasted features, she looks in the direction of the sound. 1611 W. Raleigh (1999) 324 The adventuring of an olde and sorrow-worne man. 1774 E. Jerningham 22 My solitary couch I press'd, Till sorrow-worn I wearied into rest. 1842 Nov. 450 The innermost caverns of a hollow, sorrow-worn breast. 1906 Oct. 454/1 Toil-worn, sorrow-worn, age-worn, she kept a remnant of sombre beauty. 2009 M. Seraji 253 I recognize traces of Zari's features in her kind, sorrow-worn face. 1599 R. Linche sig. Aa All sorrow-wounded thus, he lookt like one, Whom heau'ns had metamorphiz'd to a stone. ?1638 E. Waller 126 Your Tears and Sorrow-wounded Soul. 1736 Oct. 615/2 To heal the sorrow-wounded heart! 1841 Sept. 235 A distant city of refuge made magnified and glorious since it falls on weeping eyes, angelic anthems more harmonious since sorrow-wounded ears are hearing. 1913 G. Murray tr. Euripides 33 What make ye, from these sleepers thus to part Desponding and with sorrow-wounded heart If Hector be not granted you to slay Nor Paris? a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 4 Marcus vnknit that sorrow-wreathen knot. C2. society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > dirge or lament 1903 W. E. B. Du Bois xiv. 250 They that walked in darkness sang songs in the olden days—Sorrow Songs—for they were weary at heart. 1943 J. Coleridge-Taylor v. 35 On her return from a South African tour, she [sc. Ada Crasby] gave a recital,..asking my husband to accompany her in his ‘Six Sorrow Songs’. 1990 J. M. Spencer iv. 87 Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer knew the sorrow songs of the freedom struggle and the sorrow songs her mother used to sing when she was a child. 2005 M. A. Gomez viii. 205 The sorrow songs and field hollers and spirituals of slavery..slowly gave way in the late nineteenth century to a profusion of musical expressions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sorrowv. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian -sorgia (in bisorgia ; West Frisian soargje ), Old Dutch sorgon (Middle Dutch sorghen , sorgen , Dutch zorgen ), Old Saxon sorgon , sorogon (Middle Low German sorgen ), Old High German sorgōn , sworgōn (Middle High German sorgen , German sorgen ), and also (showing a different conjugation: weak Class III) Old High German sorgēn , sworgēn , Old Icelandic syrgja (Icelandic syrgja ), Norwegian (Nynorsk) sørgje , (Bokmål) sørge , Old Swedish syrghia , sörghia (Swedish sörja ), Old Danish sorge , sørge (Danish sørge ), Gothic saurgan < the same Germanic base as sorrow n.In Old English a weak verb of Class II, although apparently originally belonging to the weak Class III (compare the β. forms whose stem vowel reflects i-mutation of o via oe to e , and see further A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §§763–4); compare also Old High German, in which variants are attested in both the weak Class II and Class III. In Old English the following prefixed forms are also attested: besorgian to be anxious about, to regret (compare be- prefix), efensorgian to sympathize, commiserate (compare even adj.1 and n.2 Compounds 2a), forsorgian to be utterly despondent (compare for- prefix1). 1. To feel or express sorrow, sadness, or regret; to grieve, to mourn. In Old English also: †to feel care or anxiety, to be anxious (obsolete).the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > feel sorrow or grief [verb (intransitive)] the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief [verb (intransitive)] α. eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Otho) (2009) I. v. 397 Þa weoruld[are]..þe ðu nu sorgiende [anforlete]. OE (2008) 1384 Ne sorga, snotor guma. OE 97 Þeah hwæþere he sceal winnan & sorgian, hwonne se dæg cume þæt he sceole þæs ealles idel hweorfan. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) l. 394 (MED) Moni þing schal ham..make to carien, & for hare oþres uuel sorhin & siken. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 2532 Brennes þat isæh & sorȝeden [c1300 Otho sorewede] on his heorte. 1340 (1866) 71 [He] nou ine helle wepeþ and gredeþ, yelleþ and zorȝeþ. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 4051 Quen he þaire simpilnes sees, he soroȝes in his hert. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief for [verb (transitive)] the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > be sorry or grieved at [verb (transitive)] eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) iv. 37 He sorgað ymb ða [sc. useless works], & bið ðara suiðe gemyndig, & forgiett his selfes. OE tr. Bede (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) iii. iii. 164 Swiðe on þon sorhgedon [eOE Tanner sargedon], þæt hi þam lareowe onfon ne woldon, þe hi him to sendon. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxxviii. 351 Þæt gewit was swiðe sorgiende for þam ermðum ðe hi drogan. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Duodecim Abusivis (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 103 Þeo fifte sunne is Tristicia, þet is þissere worlde sarinesse, þenne þe mon sorȝeð [OE Corpus Cambr. 178 geunrotsað] alles to swiðe for his hehte lure. a1350 (?c1225) (Harl.) (1901) l. 956 (MED) Rymenild, þat feyre may, soreweþ for him nyht & day. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1963) 2 Kings i. 26 I sorewe vp on þee broþer myn Jonatha. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xx. 38 Thei..kisseden him, sorwinge moost in the word that he seide. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Zech. xii. 10 Thei shuln weile hym with weilyng..and thei shuln sorewen on hym, as it is wont for to be sorewid in deth of the first bygoten. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 5113 (MED) He sorus ai for þin sake. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll.) 40 The eleven kynges..sorowed gretly for the deth of hir people. a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in (1919) 22 48 (MED) Ne sorowe thow never of thynges lost. 1530 J. Palsgrave 725/1 He soroweth for his fathers deth. 1551 Acts xx. 38 Sorowing moste of all for the wordes whiche he spake. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. xvi. 54 The miserable change now at my end, Lament nor sorrow at. View more context for this quotation 1622 R. Hawkins xxx. 70 This I haue sorrowed for many times since. 1671 J. Milton 1603 I sorrow'd at his captive state. View more context for this quotation 1753 S. Richardson V. xlv. 292 Here, on Friday morning, we left Mr. Beauchamp, sorrowing for his father's illness. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee II. 273 His nature was unequal to sorrowing for more than one object. 1850 Ld. Tennyson xiv. 22 He should sorrow o'er my state. View more context for this quotation 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato (ed. 2) I. 496 I would not have him sorrow at my hard lot. 1917 Jan. 258/2 Blackmore died in January, 1900, and thousands and thousands of people who had never seen him sorrowed at the news. 1977 C. Macelli vii. 85 A woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband. 1997 16 Sept. ii. 6/4 I sorrow for my mother even more than I did when I started writing the bloody thing. the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (transitive)] the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > be anxious about [verb (transitive)] eOE (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) ix. 34 [Nal]les sorgode hwæ[ðer] sið[ðan a] mihtig drihten ametan wolde wrece be gewyrhtum wohfremmendum. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. iii. 104 Hi þa sorgodon, þæt hi sceoldon heora gewunan forlætan. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena (Harl.) (1966) 290 (MED) Thou schuldist amende þee, wrecche, and sorowe þat þou hast þus doon. 1474 W. Caxton tr. (1883) ii. v. 70 They..sorowe more that wilful pouerte is lost in rome. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. giiiiv It is..moche to be sorowed, that [etc.]. 1530 (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 308 Thy sonne..whome thou sorowedyst to suffer dethe. 1535 Judith iv. 2 They sorowed he shulde do vnto the cite of Ierusalem..as he had done to other cities. 1608 J. Smith sig. D3 Her Father..much sorrowed he could not see me. 1626 H. Parrot sig. G2 Death hath time borrowed of our neighbour Spooner, Whose wife much sorrowed that he dy'd no sooner. 1777 W. Combe 14 Much I sorrow'd that she [sc. Folly] dare maintain The shameful show of her fantastic reign. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in 185 She,..sorrowing Lancelot should have stoop'd so low, Marr'd her friend's aim. 1897 W. D. Howells 418 He sorrowed that he could not attend a service there. 1918 A. St. J. Adcock 138 Addressing David's father, who mourns the loss of his only son, he sorrows that he, their officer, had fifty such men. 1978 M. Baker iii. 78 He did not share the regret of those who sorrowed that the actor's fame rested on his name alone. 1999 J. F. Geniesse (2001) iii. 35 She could not help sorrowing that Vera had been caught in the trap Freya herself had escaped. the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause mental pain or suffering to [verb (transitive)] OE tr. Bili 40 Sum wer to sancte Machute wæs gelæd se hæfde on his ce[can..m]yclum sarum [..] gesorgod [L. qui maxillam pustulam habebat, qui cruciatus magnis doloribus]. c1225 (?c1200) (Royal) (1938) 16 (MED) Ich cwakie of grislen & of grure ant euch ban sorheð me. a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 48 Nou hit sereweþ him ful sore, ant bringeþ him to grounde. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. Prol. l. 28 What..profyte ys..to sorwe [v.rr. soru, scorn] þe Iewys? c1425 tr. J. Arderne (Sloane 6) (1910) 7 Ȝif ȝoure soule or mynd couaite þat deliteþ, drinke þe first þat soroweþ or akeþ. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. xxx. 402 Oure wykyd warkys..on oure bakys we must theym bere That will vs soroo on ilka syde. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara 303 The ague that held you, sorroweth mee. c1600 (?c1395) (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 688 Þat sorweþ myn herte How þei ben cloþed in cloþ. 1637 T. Heywood ii. iv. sig. D3 It sorrows me that you misprize my love. 1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Treasure i. ii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus II. 6 You're glad to hear what sorrows me. 1793 G. Butt I. 175 O pardon me, Should my fears have sorrow'd thee. 1840 21 23 The only member of the gentler sex whose name sorrows our obituary, is—Miss Landon. 1890 J. Middlemass II. xii. 183 The bitterness of her tone sorrowed him. 1913 D. C. Goodman xiii. 140 She was the witness of something that sorrowed her and strained just a little more, the thin filaments that held her innocent and believing. 1963 15 June 8/7 The Bishop..was sorrowed by the lack of sensitivity shown by Congress. 2002 J. Cartwright xviii. 155 It sorrows me to sell it. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief for [verb (transitive)] a1425 (a1400) (1916) 2 Cor. xii. 21 (MED) I sorewe manye of þem þat byfore han synnyd. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxiv. §17. 91 I am anlepy..and pore of warldis thynge; anlepy is mare lufid, pore is mare sorowid. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) iv. §5. 16 Ȝe..in ȝoure dennes ere stongen, sorowand ȝoure synnes. 1508 J. Fisher sig. xx.viv Shall not I sorowe ye dystruccyon of .xx. C.M. soules. 1530 (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 256 The redde rose waxed then pale when the vyrgyn sorowed the dethe of her sonne. 1547 J. Harrison sig. a.iiij This miserie is muche to be sorowed. 1632 W. Lithgow vii. 304 Their time was come, which mortality might sorrow, but..not preuent. a1657 C. Croke (1667) 13 They might..hurl themselves..into many inconveniences, sooner to be sorrowed than quitted. 1840 4 Jan. 8/1 Miss Foote was yet sorrowing the departure of one of the kindest of earthly friends. 1893 I. Mason i. 14 I sorrowed the loss of the meal more than anything else. 1908 Aug. 426 I laughed at life to keep from sorrowing it! 1996 (Nexis) 15 Apr. b1 Republicans had been sorrowing the loss of Lee Atwater, their devilish operative with the choir-boy face. the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide for the wants or needs of the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > take care of or look after > specifically a person > attend to or act for the benefit of 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1970) 25 He that sorowed for malperduys was goon his way, And the hows not pourueyed ne vitaylled. 1545 H. Brinkelow (new ed.) sig. Bi Yf ye wolde redresse these thinges..and sorowe [1542 prouyde] for the poore, so shulde ye be without the clamor of them. Phrases1573 T. Tusser f. 49v Who goith a borrowing, goith a sorrowing. 1639 J. Clarke 220 He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. 1707 J. Mortimer (1721) I. 366 Lest, according to the old Saying it proves, ‘That he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing’. 1814 Aug. 367 You may rest assured, ‘he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing’. 1905 W. Palmer lii. 310 It is n't true that ‘he who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing’. 2005 (Nexis) 13 July Those who go a borrowing must ultimately go a sorrowing goes the popular saying! Derivatives the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] 1596 P. Colse sig. D2v I thanke thy glorious grace, For this my wrinkling sorrowed face. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. ii. 34 The publike Body..send forth vs, to make their sorrowed render. View more context for this quotation 1792 T. Odiorne i. 37 The silent woods will listen to their plaint..There they may give their sorrowed passion vent. 1807 J. Barlow i. 29 Now raise thy sorrow'd soul to views more bright. 1988 N. Bissoondath xi. 224 He spoke with conviction, his voice whole, but with an undertone of sorrowed regret. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.adj.OE v.eOE |
