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DOLOR
dolor, dolour
(noun) (poetry) painful grief
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dolor (countable and uncountable, plural dolors)
(literary) Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.
A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
Synonyms
• (unit of pain): dol
Antonyms
• (unit of pain): hedon
Anagrams
• drool, loord
Source: Wiktionary
Do"lor, n. Etym: [OE. dolor, dolur, dolour, F. douleur, L. dolor, fr. dolere. See 1st Dole.]
Definition: Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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