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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsorwe,sorow,sorewe, fromOld Englishsorg,sorh(“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), fromProto-West Germanic*sorgu, fromProto-Germanic*surgō (compareWest Frisiansoarch,Dutchzorg,GermanSorge,Danish,Swedish andNorwegiansorg), fromProto-Indo-European*swergʰ-(“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compareOld Irishserg(“sickness”),Tocharian Bsark(“sickness”),Lithuaniansirgti(“be sick”),Sanskritसूर्क्षति(sū́rkṣati,“worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related tosorry andsore.

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Noun

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sorrow (countable anduncountable,pluralsorrows)

  1. (uncountable)unhappiness,woe
    Synonyms:dejection;see alsoThesaurus:sadness
  2. (countable)(usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
    Synonyms:misfortune,woe;see alsoThesaurus:disaster,Thesaurus:woe
    Parting is such sweetsorrow.
    • 1903, Maud Salvini, “Salvini as I Know Him”, inThe Theatre, number 3, page312:
      She had nursed all the children, including Sandro, to whom she was devoted, and my husband was just as fond of her. His going away to America was a greatsorrow to her, and she always kept the sacred light burning on a little altar for Sandro all the time of his long absence.
    • 1963, C.L.R. James,The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page14:
      Vaublanc, in San Domingo so sympathetic to thesorrows of labour in France, had to fly from Paris in August, 1792, to escape the wrath of the French workers.

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Translations

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unhappiness
instance or cause of unhappiness

Verb

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sorrow (third-person singular simple presentsorrows,present participlesorrowing,simple past and past participlesorrowed)

  1. (intransitive) To feel or expressgrief.
    Synonyms:grieve,mourn;see alsoThesaurus:be sad
    • 1749, Henry Fielding,Tom Jones, Folio Society, published1973, page424:
      ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
    • 1911, James George Frazer,The Golden Bough, volume11, page241:
      When, as sometimes happens, a lad dies from the effect of the operation, he is buried secretly in the forest, and hissorrowing mother is told that the monster has a pig's stomach as well as a human stomach, and that unfortunately her son slipped into the wrong stomach.
  2. (transitive) To feel grief over; tomourn,regret.
    Synonyms:bewail,grieve;see alsoThesaurus:lament

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to show grief

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Middle English

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Noun

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sorrow

  1. (Late Middle English, Ireland)alternative form ofsorwe
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