sorrowing
sorrowing is the present participle and gerund of sorrow.
Meaning of sorrow
Verb
sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)
- To feel or express grief.
- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 424
- To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
- It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Noun
sorrowing (plural sorrowings)
- 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[…]2011, Clifford Williams, Existential Reasons for Belief in God
Forms of sorrowing
| plural | sorrowings |
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Questions about sorrowing
- What does sorrowing mean?
- Sorrowing means the act of feeling sorrow.
- What is sorrowing the present participle and gerund of?
- Sorrowing is the present participle and gerund of sorrow.
- What part of speech is sorrowing?
- Sorrowing is a noun.
- What is the plural of sorrowing?
- The plural of sorrowing is sorrowings.
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