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Webster 1913 Edition

Sorrow

Sor′row

,
Noun.
[OE.
sorwe
,
sorewe
,
sor[GREEK]e
, AS.
sorg
,
sorh
; akin to D.
zorg
care, anxiety, OS.
sorga
, OHG.
sorga
,
soraga
,
suorga
, G.
sorge
, Icel., Sw., & Dan.
sorg
, Goth.
saúrga
; of unknown origin.]
The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness.
Milton.
How great a
sorrow
suffereth now Arcite!
Chaucer.
The safe and general antidote against
sorrow
is employment.
Rambler.
Syn. – Grief; unhappiness; regret; sadness; heaviness; mourning; affliction. See
Affliction
, and
Grief
.

Sor′row

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sorrowed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Sorrowing
.]
[OE.
sorowen
,
sorwen
,
sorhen
, AS.
sorgian
; akin to Goth.
saúrgan
. See
Sorrow
,
Noun.
]
To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.
Sorrowing
most of all . . . that they should see his face no more.
Acts xx. 38.
I desire no man to
sorrow
for me.
Sir J. Hayward.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sorrow

SOR'ROW

,
Noun.
The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good. or of frustrated hopes of good, or expected loss of happiness; to grieve; to be sad. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry, but the ye sorrowed to repentance. I Cor. 7. Sorrowing most of all for the words which be spoke, that they should see his face no more. Acts 20.

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