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Meanings of ruthfulness in English

A state of gloomy sorrow.

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Examples for "mournfulness"
Examples for "mournfulness"
1
A mournfulness was over the place, like the terror of a contagion.
The Nabob
2
He would howl in twenty different strains of mournfulness, at my bidding.
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment)
3
The beauty of the night touched him, and mixed these feelings with mournfulness.
Evan Harrington — Complete
4
She looked at me with indescribable mournfulness and shook her head.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
5
Her eyes lost their mournfulness and blazed a black-red at him.
The Moccasin Maker
1
When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell.
Nocturne
2
There was no sense of gloom or sorrowfulness in her company.
Henry Brocken / His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,...
3
He was grave, but he did not resent her sorrowfulness.
The Precipice: A Novel
4
As the eyes rested on him their sorrowfulness seemed to be shot with humour.
Huntingtower
5
The flute-like sorrowfulness of the organ thrills through my blood; my nerves vibrate in responsive echo.
Hunger