Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who sorrows; one who grieves or mourns.

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  • noun a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)

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Examples

  • Room was made for the sorrower, who was followed by two or three female friends.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • It was one thing to make light of a young man's sorrows in love, but another to do it when the sorrower was Xavier's age.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • It was one thing to make light of a young man's sorrows in love, but another to do it when the sorrower was Xavier's age.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • Perhaps no other thing has such power to lift the poor out of his poverty, the wretched out of his misery, to make the burden-bearer forget his burden, the sick his sufferings, the sorrower his grief, the downtrodden his degradation, as books.

    How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887

  • Full believer likewise, and true sorrower, was Greenleaf, in Hilary's death, having its seeming proof from Constance and Miranda as well as from Flora.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • His blandness of temper, his modesty, the benignity of his manners, made him the favorite of intelligent society; and, with healthy cheerfulness, he derived pleasure from books, from philosophy, from conversation, -- now administering consolation to the sorrower, now indulging in light-hearted gayety.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • So the man who had married his father's wife afterwards repented him of this sin, [1 Cor 5: 1] but again the Devil resolved so to augment this very sorrow of repentance, that his sorrow being made too abundant might swallow up the sorrower.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • Room was made for the sorrower, who was followed by two or three female friends.

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • It was one thing to make light of a young man’s sorrows in love, but another to do it when the sorrower was Xavier’s age.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • It was one thing to make light of a young man’s sorrows in love, but another to do it when the sorrower was Xavier’s age.

    Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

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