sorrowing

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Verb

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sorrowing

  1. present participle and gerund of sorrow

Noun

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sorrowing (plural sorrowings)

  1. The act of feeling sorrow.
    • 2011, Clifford Williams, Existential Reasons for Belief in God:
      The daily sorrowings of grief and repentance are genuine emotions. It is simply not legitimate to maintain that the real emotions are the initial bursts of high-pitched passions []