Dolour

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈdÉ’lÉ™/
• Rhymes: -É’lÉ™(ɹ)

Alternative forms

• dolor

Origin

Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor ("pain, grief").

Full definition of dolour

Noun

1. (literary) A painful grief or suffering.
• 1605, But for all this thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. — William Shakespeare, King Lear II.ii
• 1874, James Thomson (B.V.), , XPerchance a congregation to fulfilSolemnities of silence in this doom,Mysterious rites of dolour and despairPermitting not a breath or chant of prayer?