Sorrowing

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of feeling sorrow.

    "The daily sorrowings of grief and repentance are genuine emotions. It is simply not legitimate to maintain that the real emotions are the initial bursts of high-pitched passions[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of sorrow form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    sorrowful through loss or deprivation wordnet

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"I have long been sorrowing lamenting for your woes."

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