1painful, hurting, subject to physical pain:
(
s.xii1/3;
MS: s.xiii2
)
Se hom ad les oilz chacios E pur sanc seient doleros [...]
214.322
(
c.1150;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Un hom esteit palacinus. Tant ert feble, tant dolerus, Ne poeit sur ses pez ester
1488
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
pur sa
(=J.C.’s) dolerouse passion [...]
206.25
♦
grievous, damaging:
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Deu te dunt mal e dolurose querele
3303
(
1398-99;
MS: s.xv1
)
come tres grandes et dolerouses malices [...] eient estez procurees [...]
11.xiv.7
2emotionsorrowful, woeful:
(
MS: 1120-40
)
' E! filz,' dist il, 'cum dolerus message!'
388
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: c.1300
)
Icil s’en vunt dolerous
353
(
a.1399;
MS: a.1399
)
le dit roy de N. fuist moult pensive et moult dolourous q’il ne purroit sa volunté perfourner
66.23
3miserable, pitiful:
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Li un cuntre les altres crient, Meis ne seivent que il s’entredient; A l’assembler out grant criee, Ceo fu doleruse assemblee
i 202.1118
(
c.1235;
MS: c.1235
)
Sanz rei, vaivez, dulurus, serfs pleintifs
164
(
c.1240;
MS: c.1300
)
Le deble [...] od sun maleit barnage Si unt la dolerouse alme saisie En lur doleruse compainie
80.41-2
1emotionsorrowful person:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
As tristes est confort e joie as dolerus
14
2miserable, pitiful person:
(
c.1230;
MS: s.xiiim
)
[...] Ke vus pur Deu eez merci De ceste doleruse
5499
(
1400;
MS: s.xv1
)
elle est le plus doloureuse vivante pour les grevous novelles quelx ad eue
86.21
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dolurus (s.xii1/3)