Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, sad, plaintive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) Plaintively. See
doloroso .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb music A direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.
Etymologies
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Examples
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NICKLAUSSE (d'une voix dolente, en montrant Hoffman.)
The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach
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The inscription implies that all the world sorrowed at his death: "Orbe dolente Pater ... ruit."
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Tu verras ma mere A mes pieds qui s'ra triste et dolente;
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Ecoutez tous, petits et grands, s'il vows plait de l'entendre, La passion de Jesus-Christ; elle est triste et dolente (bis).
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Libertus Melioris ille notus, tota qui cecidit dolente Roma, cari deliciae breues patroni, hoc sub marmore Glaucias humatus iuncto Flaminiae iacet sepulcro: 15 castus moribus, integer pudore, uelox ingenio, decore felix. bis senis modo messibus peractis uix unum puer applicabat annum. qui fles talia, nil fleas, uiator.
In Memoriam Martial 1912
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La _colonna vertebrale_ era dolente, se leggermente compressa con un dito, o se appena percossa col martello da percussione il dolore si faceva intenso, acuto specialmente nelle regioni lombare e dorsale.
In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Dole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go.
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The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italican and the Teuton parted company on their way from Central Asia.
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The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italian and the Teuton parted company on their way from
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
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Dole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go.
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
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