Noun

Singular sorrow

Plural countable and uncountable; plural sorrows

sorrow (countable and uncountable; plural sorrows)

1. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
2. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Verb

Infinitive to sorrow

Third person singular sorrows

Simple past sorrowed

Past participle sorrowed

Present participle sorrowing

to sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)

1. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:

     ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

Sorrow

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sorrow may refer to:

• Sorrow (emotion) — the emotion
• Several songs:
  • "Sorrow (Pink Floyd song)" — a 1987 song by Pink Floyd from their album A Momentary Lapse of Reason
  • "Sorrow (The McCoys song)" — a song by the McCoys also known in versions by The Merseys and David Bowie.
  • "Sorrow (Bad Religion song)" — the 8th track on Bad Religion's 2002 album, The Process of Belief
  • "Sorrow (Flyleaf song)" — the fourth video from their 2005 album, Flyleaf
• The Sorrow (Metal Gear Solid 3), a character in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Sorrow is a profound experience of unhappiness, woe, or sadness.

Sourced

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
  • Alexander Maclaren, p. 43.

• Most of the Beatitudes which the Infinite Compassion pronounced have the sorrows of earth for their subject, but the joys of earth for their completion.
  • Hannah More, p. 555.

• Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
  • Adoniram Judson Gordon, p. 555.

• How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
  • Horatius Bonar, p. 555.

• Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?
  • Jean Paul Richter, p. 556.

• When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
  • William Mountford, p. 556.

• It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow — the night of the soul — that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.
  • William Mountford, p. 556.

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