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dolourousness

dolourousness is the rare spelling of dolorousness.

Meaning of dolorousness

Noun

dolorousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being dolorous.
    • Taking old William and Benny with me, I was soon camped in a little hut on the west point of Frigate Bird, in a grove of tall puka trees where the wind moans with a pleasing dolorousness and a dozen species of sea birds squawk discordantly from their perches in the branches.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 82

Questions about dolourousness

What is dolourousness the rare spelling of?
Dolourousness is the rare spelling of dolorousness.

Words near dolourousness in the dictionary

  1. dolostone
  2. dolostones
  3. dolour
  4. dolourous
  5. dolourously
  6. dolourousness
  7. dolours
  8. Dolowich
  9. Dolph
  10. dolphin
  11. dolphin dive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dolourousness (page history and authors); dolorousness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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