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sorrow

/ˈsɑɹoʊ/ noun B1
  1. unhappiness, woe (uncountable)
  2. (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. (countable) · Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Plural sorrows

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It’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 41 · C1
The girl let the braid drop back with a sigh that seemed to come from her very toes and to exhale forth all the sorrows of the ages.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 22 · C1
It will be my lifelong sorrow.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 22 · C1
I read of a girl once in a novel who had a lifelong sorrow but it wasn’t red hair.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 22 · C1

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