English

Alternative forms

• dolor

Noun

dolour ‎(plural dolours)

1. (literary) A painful grief or suffering.

   • 1605, But for all this thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. — William Shakespeare, King Lear II.ii

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, X

     Perchance a congregation to fulfil

     Solemnities of silence in this doom,

     Mysterious rites of dolour and despair

     Permitting not a breath or chant of prayer?

Translations

Old French

Noun

dolour f ‎(oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur

   qi purroit penser ou ymaginer la dolour et les peynes qe vous, ma douz Dame, endurastes.

   Who could think of or imagine the pain and the suffering that you, my dear lady, have endured.