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Webster 1913 Edition
Sadness
Sad′ness
,Noun.
1.
Heaviness; firmness.
[Obs.]
2.
Seriousness; gravity; discretion.
[Obs.]
Her
sadness
and her benignity. Chaucer.
3.
Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
Dim
That time celestial visages.
sadness
did not spareThat time celestial visages.
Milton.
Syn. – Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See
Grief
. Webster 1828 Edition
Sadness
SAD'NESS
, n.1.
Sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind; as grief and sadness at the memory of sin.2.
A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.Dim sadness did not spare Celestial visages.
3.
Seriousness; sedate gravity. Let every thing in a mournful subject have an air of sadness.