dolorose

Borrowed from Latin dolōrōsus (“painful, sorrowful”); compare doloroso and dolorous.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏʹlərōs, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒləɹəʊs/

dolorose (comparative more dolorose, superlative most dolorose)

1. Grievous and sorrowful.
   • Middle English?: Alexander Jamieson (?), Herre followythe a lamyntabill tragedye, ful of concytete myrthe, yclepede, a Mirroure fore magystrattis, baylyes, councylloures, and crafftessmenne, main title (1819 republication)

     Herre followythe a lamyntabill tragedye, ful of concytete myrthe, yclepede, a Mirroure fore magystrattis, baylyes, councylloures, and crafftessmenne: Conteynynge the ryghte dolorose, tragycalle, and deinge speeches offe somme herretoeforre famose rueleres; as alsoe, shoeinge yow cawyse of grette myrthe, howe dystresse makythe the dummbe speke wythe a wyse tonge, moche semblable untoe Balaame his asse; whyche nottede personne was the patryarche ande anncystorre offe more rueleres, magystrattis, ande the lykke, than onneste menne will thynke. Impryntede atte the costes ande chargys offe mi moste woorthye patronne, his worchyppe Aldyrmanne Thornne.

   • 1833, Alexander John Ellis, editor, The Kaleidoscope; A Periodical Conducted by Eton Boys, page 192:

     I hope he’s not quite so dolorose to-day as he was a month ago.

   • 1844, Franz J. L. Thimm, edited by William Henry Farn, The Literature of Germany: From Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed, pages 37–38:

     The comedy of “Minna von Barnhelm,” completed about 1761, is the most celebrated of that era. It is a most spirited and impressive production, no less characteristic than national, and at its first appearance on the German stage, was reckoned, upon the whole, a perfect phenomenon. By its dolorose scenes, which excel the comic ones, it ought, perhaps, rather to be classed with the tragic drama than with comedy.

dolorose f pl

1. feminine plural of doloroso

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /do.loːˈroː.se/, [d̪ɔɫ̪oːˈroːs̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /do.loˈro.se/, [d̪oloˈrɔːs̬e]

dolōrōse

1. vocative singular of dolōrōsus