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sorrowings

sorrowings is the plural of sorrowing.

Meaning of sorrowing

Noun

sorrowing (plural sorrowings)

  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[…]2011, Clifford Williams, Existential Reasons for Belief in God

Questions about sorrowings

What is sorrowings the plural of?
Sorrowings is the plural of sorrowing.

Words near sorrowings in the dictionary

  1. sorrowfully
  2. sorrowfulness
  3. sorrowfulnesses
  4. sorrowing
  5. sorrowingly
  6. sorrowings
  7. sorrowless
  8. sorrowlessness
  9. sorrowly
  10. sorrows
  11. sorrowsome

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