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Sorriness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being sorry; regret. uncountable
  2. 2
    worthlessness due to insignificance wordnet
  3. 3
    Worthlessness; wretchedness. uncountable

    "His friend, Mr. Smith, thought that "a sorry farmer on a sorry farm is a sorry sight." Bill hardly attained that level of sorriness."

Etymology

From Middle English sorinesse, from Old English sāriġnes, from Proto-West Germanic *sairaganassī, *sairīganassī; equivalent to sorry + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian searigens (“soreness, tenderness”).

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