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Meanings of sorrowfulness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "mournfulness"
Examples for "mournfulness"
1
A mournfulness was over the place, like the terror of a contagion.
2
He would howl in twenty different strains of mournfulness, at my bidding.
3
The beauty of the night touched him, and mixed these feelings with mournfulness.
4
She looked at me with indescribable mournfulness and shook her head.
5
Her eyes lost their mournfulness and blazed a black-red at him.
Usage of sorrowfulness in English
1
When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell.
2
There was no sense of gloom or sorrowfulness in her company.
3
He was grave, but he did not resent her sorrowfulness.
4
As the eyes rested on him their sorrowfulness seemed to be shot with humour.
5
The flute-like sorrowfulness of the organ thrills through my blood; my nerves vibrate in responsive echo.
6
What leads to the permanent sorrowfulness of burglars is that their principles are contrary to burglary.
7
That it may not smother in this sorrowfulness!
8
As she descended into the valley and the open plain beyond her sorrowfulness fell away from her.
9
In my sorrowfulness and loneliness I fly to Him, and find, what is better than earthly felicity, the sweetest peace.
10
She could have answered, 'Not if you wish me not to'; while smiling at the quaint sorrowfulness of his tone.
11
He tracked her sorrowfulness to the want of money; and another of his terrific vague struggles with the money-demon set in.
12
He found among her papers many leaves written by herself, many verses and poems, which breathed forth the sorrowfulness of her spirit.
13
We perceive not fully either of our wretchedness or our dangers, or the fury of enemies, until after events of extraordinary sorrowfulness.
14
While visiting those at Marseilles, he was much struck by the broken- down looks and exceeding sorrowfulness of one of the convicts.
15
We shall not rightly estimate the sorrowfulness of Christ's sorrows, unless we bring to our meditations on them the other thought of His joys.
16
"Surely, sir," the maiden answered, with a smile of sweet sorrowfulness.
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Sorrowfulness through the time