Usage of "ruthfulness"

A state of gloomy sorrow.

Sinônimos

Examples for "mournfulness"

Examples for "mournfulness"

A mournfulness was over the place, like the terror of a contagion. 
 The Nabob 

He would howl in twenty different strains of mournfulness, at my bidding. 
 Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) 

The beauty of the night touched him, and mixed these feelings with mournfulness. 
 Evan Harrington — Complete 

She looked at me with indescribable mournfulness and shook her head. 
 A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder 

Her eyes lost their mournfulness and blazed a black-red at him. 
 The Moccasin Maker 

When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell. 
 Nocturne 

There was no sense of gloom or sorrowfulness in her company. 
 Henry Brocken / His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,... 

He was grave, but he did not resent her sorrowfulness. 
 The Precipice: A Novel 

As the eyes rested on him their sorrowfulness seemed to be shot with humour. 
 Huntingtower 

The flute-like sorrowfulness of the organ thrills through my blood; my nerves vibrate in responsive echo. 
 Hunger 

Significados de ruthfulness em inglês