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seeksorrows

seeksorrows is the plural of seeksorrow.

Meaning of seeksorrow

Noun

seeksorrow (plural seeksorrows)

  1. A person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor.
    • In a bicentennial comment for Newsweek, he took issue with those who played the role of Seeksorrow. The Yale literary magazine had written him asking if he thought things were going to get worse […]2002, Scott Donaldson, 9781463430856, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 301

Questions about seeksorrows

What is seeksorrows the plural of?
Seeksorrows is the plural of seeksorrow.

Words near seeksorrows in the dictionary

  1. seeks for
  2. seeks one's fortune
  3. seeks one's virtuous couch
  4. seeks out
  5. seeksorrow
  6. seeksorrows
  7. seel
  8. Seeland
  9. Seelands
  10. seeled
  11. Seeley

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