dolourous


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Adj.1.dolourous - showing sorrowdolourous - showing sorrow      
dolorous, lachrymose, weeping, tearful
sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
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In book 2, chapter 16, Malory relates how Balin injures King Pellam with the spear of Longinus, and the dire consequences which ensue: "And all that were alive cried O Balin, thou hast caused great damage in these countries; for the dolourous stroke thou gavest unto King Pellam, three countries are destroyed, and doubt not but the vengeance will fall on thee at the last" (65).
THE UNDOING OF ALL THINGS: MALORIAN LANGUAGE AND ALLUSION IN DAVID JONES' IN PARENTHESIS

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