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noun

Sadness n.

Heaviness; firmness. (Obs.)

Seriousness; gravity; discretion. (Obs.) "Her sadness and her benignity."

Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. "Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages."

Synonyms: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.

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Etymology of 'Sadness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sadness" Quotes from Famous Books

... very simple and touching words to a rough audience of fishermen. The gnarled faces looked placid as the clever, broken man talked on, and Desborough's own face seemed to have grown spiritual. His eye had an expression of quiet sadness, but I liked him better as a preacher ...

— The Romance of the Coast • James Runciman

... at once obeyed, so the girdle escaped. He wondered to see the lance leaning against the tree, the shield on the ground, and Don Quixote in armour and dejected, with the saddest and most melancholy face that sadness itself could produce; and going up to him he said, "Be not so cast down, good man, for you have not fallen into the hands of any inhuman Busiris, but into Roque Guinart's, which are more ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... went to the drawing-room, and it was with a feeling of real sadness that Dolly realised it was ...

— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells

... and find the scene of enchantment in the vale behind. My hopes were never so definite, but my eye was constantly allured to that distant blue range, and I would sit, lost in fancies, till tears fell on my cheek. I loved this sadness; but only in later years, when the realities of life had taught me moderation, did the passionate emotions excited by seeing them again teach how glorious were the hopes that swelled my heart while gazing on ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... a full hour before closing, went down from the lunch- room, and past all the familiar offices; the sadness of change tugging at her heart-strings. She had been here a long time, she had smelled this same odor of scorching rubber, and oils and powders through so many slow afternoons, in gay moods and sad, in moods of rebellion and distaste. She left a part of ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

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