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2 Sorrow


affliction, crestfallen, dolorous, melancholy, gloomy

affliction > afflict
(affliction)- a state of pain, distress, or grief; misery, (\; C5'; C ;
); Here I was brought into great affliction, and to pass through the
severest trial that I ever experienced before or since. The Power of Faith;
(afflict)- to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or
grievously, (Ch C \f C5'f Ch"); He was greatly
surprised to see me so much afflicted, and comforted me in the best manner
he could, not thinking me so bad as I was. Autobiography of Madame Guyon;
anguish = torment {excruciate = torture}
(anguish)- excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain, (h
; ); It was with a suppressed anguish which is
indescribable that he sat there, with his face covered, looking this
approaching misery in the face. Phoebe, Junior;
(torment)- to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain, (h
); The intolerable thirst with which the troops were tormented, even on
this first march, was but ill allayed by brackish and unwholesome water.
The Memoirs of Napoleon;
(excruciate)- to inflict severe pain upon; torture, ( Ch
Ch"); The excruciated patient was having his wet bandages folded
across his bruises, and could not bear a motion of the mind. The Adventures
of Harry Richmond Volume 7;
anguish^ angst = anxiety
(anguish)- excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain, (h
); In the excess of their anguish, they turned for
comfort to their saintly friend, beseeching her to come to them without delay.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation;
(angst)- a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish, (C C); I know


of no evidence that atheists have any general tendency towards unhappy,
angst-ridden despond. The God Delusion;
woe : adversity = hardship ~ throes : tribulation : fell
(woe)- grievous distress, affliction, or trouble, (; \; C'); The
cause of his woe is a telegram, which he is regarding from all points of the
compass, as if in hopes of making it send him better news;
(adversity)- adverse fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune,
calamity, or distress, ( ; Ch ); After many storms of adversity,
our author spent the evening of his days in ease and serenity. The Lives of
the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland;
(throes)- any violent convulsion or struggle,(C h_ C ); The
serpent shrieked in its death throes, and its cries reached its fellows. The
Seventh Gate;
the pains of childbirth, (C );
the agony of death;
(trubulation)- grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering, (-C );
And tribulation, anguish, and despair, will seize on "every soul of man" who
had neglected or despised them. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4;
(fell)- fierce; cruel; dreadful; savage; The newspaper told of the tragic
spread of the fell disease;
crestfallen = dejected = downcast ~ disheartened : desperate = despondent ~
forlorn = bleak : pessimism
(crestfallen)- dejected; dispirited; discouraged, (0; '); He
looked crestfallen, his kindly and well-favoured countenance being
overspread by an expression of disarmingly innocent penitence.--It weighed
on me. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance;
having a drooping crest or head;
(dejected)- depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited, (Ch;
0C); He became thoughtful and dejected, and one day made known to
Cipriani his deliberate intention to shoot the Governor the first time he came
to Longwood The Tragedy of St. Helena;
(downcast)- directed downward, as the eyes, ((l C< ) );
dejected in spirit; depressed,(( C<) hD; 5; ;
Ch); This made both of them look exceeding downcast, and chew the
bitter quid of disappointment. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale;
(dishearten)- to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage, ('
; ); Heredity bugaboos dishearten, enervate, encourage


excesses and neglect. Civics and Health;
(desperate)- reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency, (h
' CC hC DC ; ); The battle
now became desperate, the Indians concentrating all their forces against the
column going round the lake. Reminiscences of a Pioneer;
having an urgent need, desire, etc.; desperate for attention;
extreme or excessive,desperado; (l; " ; ; );
(despondent)- feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection,
discouragement, or gloom, ( 0; '; -); I was grown timid
and despondent, and could not help fearing that some dreadful calamity
awaited us there. Agnes Grey;
(forlorn)- desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling,
condition, or appearance, (( ) ; ; c);
lonely and sad; forsaken, (; '; ; ) ; Beautiful
maiden lost on the range--forlorn, homesick, wretched, scared. Prairie
Flowers;
(bleak)- bare, desolate, and often windswept, (; ; ;
<"q; ' \); It was a day in early November -- bleak,
bitter, and gusty, with whirling snow; most persons were indoors. The
Boys' Life of Mark Twain;
cold and piercing; raw;
without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary, (; 0;
'); Just as bleak are the projections for consumption tax revenue
for 2009, which is estimated to drop 11 percent;
(pessimism)- the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or
undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc., (C'
C; h); To counteract the tendency toward pessimism, his resource
was to develop his sense of humor, to create an atmosphere of gayety, by
which he was enabled to meet people on a common plane. Beethoven A
Character Study;
devastate = desolate > desolation
(desolate)- barren or laid waste; devastated, ("0); The plunderers
desolated the countryside, burning firms and carrying off the harvest;
deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited, (' ;
; ); The widow never returned to the desolated homestead.
The Reign of Andrew Jackson;


solitary; lonely, ( <); a desolate place;
dreary; dismal; gloomy, ( h); desolate prospects;
(desolation)- the state of being desolated, (h);
devastation; ruin, (m); a drought that brought desolation to the region;
dreariness; barrenness, (' );
deprivation of companionship; loneliness, ("0; );
sorrow; grief; woe; a sense of utter desolation following the death of his
parents;
dysphoria # euphoria^ eugenics
(dysphoria)- a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting;
The most commonly reported characteristics of a hangover include headache,
nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, lethargy, dysphoria, and thirst;
(euphoria)- a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes
exaggerated in pathological states as mania, ( " ;
); It is a kind of euphoria, a joy of war, lust for revenge, drunkenness
on power and burial of the Jewish command "Do not be joyful when your
enemy falls";
(eugenics)- the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective
breeding (especially as applied to human mating);
hapless = wretched = woeful = woebegone = pathetic > pathos = poignancy >
poignant
(hapless)- unlucky; luckless; unfortunate, (; ); He thought of
Carlos originally as a hapless youth having a sort of natural right to rebel.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller;
(wretched)- very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable;
pitiable, (C'l; ; h 'D); When one is wretched, there is a
pleasure in being entirely wretched. The Hoosier Schoolmaster;
(woeful)- full of woe; wretched; unhappy, ( ; C'l;
); The fatal cry of sauve qui peut was heard everywhere: the French
were now flying pellmell in the most woeful confusion. The History of
Napoleon Buonaparte;
(woebegone)- beset with woe; affected by woe, esp. in appearance,
(; h; \); I shall never forget the
melancholy, woebegone faces of my captain and brother officers on our re-
assembling on board. Sketches From My Life;
(pathetic)- causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.;
pitiful; pitiable, (; C^); His face was very like that of the young


negro in Watteau's drawing--pathetic, wistful, north-bitten. The Lost Girl;
(pathos)- the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature,
music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or
compassion, ( ); Simplicity and a pervading, appealing pathos are
the qualities transmitted to its lines by the poet." My Reminiscences;
(poignancy)- quality of being deeply moving; keeness of emotion, (];
Ch); The tenderness shrills to such exquisite poignancy that it
becomes a universal cry, the soul's lament for traitorism: The pity of it,
Iago! The Man Shakespeare;
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pathos <> bathos = anticlimax
(bathos)- displaying or characterized by bathos; (l C h
hD CC C lC ); The last line is a
delightful bathos, adding immensely to the completeness of the catastrophe.
Grain and Chaff from an English Manor;
(anticlimax)- an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less
important, powerful, or striking than expected, ( _
h C CC ); A sense of
exasperated anticlimax set in as Mervyn disappeared from sight. An
Autobiography;
a descent in power, quality, dignity, etc.; a disappointing, weak, or
inglorious conclusion; After serving as President, he may find life in
retirement an anticlimax;
a noticeable or ludicrous descent from lofty ideas or expressions to
banalities or commonplace remarks, ( <C C C_l
); We were amused by the anticlimax of the company's motto: For
God, for country, and for Acme Gasworks;
bereavement > bereaved = bereft = lovelorn
(bereavement)- to deprive and make desolate, esp. by death, (
C'); Who is so fitted to sing praises to Christ as he who has
learned Him in hours of bereavement, disappointment and despair? The
Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss;
(bereaved)- (of a person) greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a
loved one, ( C "q ); She appeared bereaved, as if something had
happened which she could not begin to understand. A Funeral In Blue;
(bereft)- deprived of; lacking, ( ; C' ); And this morning she was
feeling bereft, a great emptiness somewhere deep inside her. Mary Balogh


- Unlikely Duchess;
(lovelorn)- being without love; forsaken by one's lover, (C-); Then
he behaved just like a lovelorn beau, when his best girl comes near. Welsh
Fairy Tales;
dolorous = lachrymose = lugubrious ~ plaintive = mournful = doleful^ doldrums
(dolorous)- full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous;
mournful, ( ; h); The refrain of Here lie the Remains haunted
me like a dolorous song. The Three Brontes;
(lachrymose)- suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful, (^ ;
'; l C); Many men in their cups become lachrymose, others
silly, and some combative. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew;
(lugubrious)- mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected,
exaggerated, or unrelieved manner, (0; C' ); Brooker's face
was lugubrious, like a Methodist preacher who revelled in hell-fire
predictions. Sharpe's Enemy;
(plaintive)- expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful, (l ;
C' ; ); All their songs are plaintive, and contain modulations of
the voice so mysteriously charming in effect, and so good in tone, that they
really affect one profoundly. In the Forbidden Land;
(mournful)- feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful; sad, (C' ;
C'); One by one, the quiet essays and mournful-seeming stories came
forth, like drops from a slow-distilling spring. A Study Of Hawthorne;
(doleful)- sorrowful; mournful; melancholy, (Ch; C' ); The place
is doleful, and a funeral scene on the only sunless day I experienced in Ladak
was indescribably dismal. Among the Tibetans;
(doldrums)- a dull, listless, depressed mood; low spirits, ( ;
q; ); If a banquet would lift him from
the doldrums, they would throw the most lavish banquet that had ever been
seen in Silvanesti. Dragons Of A Lost Star;
a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the
northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
( ' CC C C \C );
melancholy : jeremiad : ululate = wail
(melancholy)- a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged;
depression, (h; '; h lC ); The reason for
her melancholy was evident to any one who knew her father's history.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1;


(jeremiad)- a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint, (h
C'; C ); The intensity of the eyes and the
defiant tone bewildered the doctor, who found his well-
constructed jeremiad without a platform. The Ragged Edge;
(ululate)- to howl, as a dog or a wolf; hoot, as an owl;
to utter howling sounds, as in shrill, wordless lamentation; wail; Dolefully,
he ululated a final, forlorn whistle of farewell. Diuturnity's Dawn;
(wail)- to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched
or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering, ( Ch ); The last
came out in a wail, and she clapped her hands over her mouth, only belatedly
realizing that she had blurted out far more than she should have. The
Shadow Of The Lion;
funereal <> funeral
(funereal)- mournful; gloomy; dismal, (C; C'; h"q); The
drapes, dark `red against the dark brown wooden walls, gave the room an
almost funereal atmosphere. The Shadow Of The Lion;
(funeral)- the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation;
obsequies, (C; '); He was buried in the cemetery of Christ
Church, Philadelphia, and his funeral was attended by more than 20,000 of
his fellow-citizens. Life and Times of Washington;
(mortician) funeral director, (h ' ); The mortician prepared the
corpse for burial;
gloomy = sulky = drab = dreary = disconsolate = glum = sullen {dour} =
saturnine = dark = morose = moody > moodiness
(gloomy)- dark or dim; deeply shaded, (<; C); Your skies
may be gloomy, and misty your mornings, Life and Remains of John Clare;
causing gloom; dismal or depressing, )0; 0(; His victories were
never accompanied with one gloomy, relenting thought. Memoirs of Aaron
Burr;
(sulky)- marked by or given to sulking; sullen, (C\C ; ;
C);
gloomy or dull; When he was not singing, he stood looking like a sulky child.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
(drab)- dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc, (; CC;
Cl); I left the shop feeling dowdy and drab, and mildly apprehensive.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 02;
having the color drab,( h CCl );


a low, sluttish woman, ) C CCC; C'(;
(disconsolate)- sad, without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy;
inconsolable, )C C C'C \ ; C C'C _ C(;
There was, however, no help for the disconsolate landlord, and Telford left
the Salopian to take possession of his new house at 24, Abingdon Street.
The Life of Thomas Telford;
(glum)- sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected, ); 0(; "He was a
charming mixture of glum and glee )(" --Lillian Hellman;
(sullen)- showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve,
(l C ; C); Her expression was still fairly neutral-but her
eyes held a sullen, if suppressed, fury. Burning Water;
persistently and silently ill-humored; morose,); 0; (; So
deep and sullen were the clouds that we were obliged to light the candles.
Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody;
(dour)- sullen; gloomy; severe; stern, )C; Ch; C(; A portrait of
Landa in the introduction showed a dour, disapproving man, lips tight, eyes
downcast. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine;
(saturnine)- sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn, ) ; C\(;
His entire physiognomy was interestingly saturnine--even cadaverously pale.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 5;
(morose)- gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood, )C\;
lCl; l -; (; His most gloomy moods were rather abrupt
and fitful than morose, and his usual bearing was calm, soft, and even tender.
Eugene Aram Volume 01;
(moodiness)- given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored,
)C; C; l(; He had that mix of moodiness,
machismo and vulnerability that audiences have always looked for in their
favourite "method" actors;
dark : swarthy = dusky = brunette
(swarthy)- (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark, ) ; '; ' (;
His complexion was swarthy, and his skin shriveled and yellow even then.
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln;
(dusky)- somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy, )
<"q ; ;(; He towered beside the altar, dusky, naked,
with a face like a carven image. The Hour of the Dragon;
(brunette)- (of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone, )'(; Her


hair, brunette, darker than I remembered, had been stylishly cut and it gave
her the appearance of looking much younger. The Rules of Attraction;

remorse, deplore pine, redemption

self-reproach = self-reproof = compunction = remorse = reproach
(self-reproach)- blame or censure by one's own conscience; I feel humiliated
before myself, because I seek in vain release from this grief of self-reproach.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt;
(self-reproof)- the act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by
one's own judgment; He assumed a tone of raillery, which is, perhaps, the
readiest mode of escaping from the feelings of self-reproof. Woodstock; or,
the Cavalier;
(compunction)- a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused
by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse, (C;
c ); He was so much addicted to compunction, and
inflamed with heavenly desires, that he could never say mass without tears.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints;
(remorse)- deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction, (
C'l ; ; C h'); I have felt the same remorse, the same
bludgeoning sense of guilt. Highland Ballad;
(reproach)- to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure,
(); Lyoff renounced his unrealized dreams with silent reproach, and
Sergei with morbid misanthropy. Reminiscences of Tolstoy;
contrite = rueful = remorseful = repentant = penitent > impenitent : penance
(contrite)- filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement;
penitent, (C C
; -C \); He
was contrite, and yet no tear was in his eye, no gentle word on his lips.
Sintram and His Companions;
(rueful)- causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable, ( ; );
Darby's tone was so rueful, his expression one of such patient forbearance
towards base treachery, that his aunt laughed outright. Two Little Travellers
A Story for Girls;
(remorse)- deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction, (
C'l ; ; C h'); I have felt the same remorse, the same
bludgeoning sense of guilt. Highland Ballad;
(repentant)- repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance, ( ); He
declared himself thoroughly repentant--that this was his first, and would be


his last crime--but who can trust the good resolutions of a gambler! Life in
Mexico;
(penitent)- feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed
to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite, ( C
); Austin was very penitent, and promised he'd never
be unpunctual again if he lived to be a hundred. Austin and His Friends;
(impenitent)- not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate,
(' ; C'l ); Indeed a hard heart is impenitent, and
impenitence also makes the heart harder and harder. Works of John Bunyan
Complete;
(penance)- a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin, (
C C h C" -C'l ; ); The most popular form
of penance was the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, long and painful as it was.
Beacon Lights of History;
lament {elegy}
(lament)- to feel or express sorrow or regret for, (C' );
The song's lyrics take the form of a first-person lament, as the singer describes
his struggles to overcome loneliness and poverty in New York City;
(elegy)- a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a
lament for the dead, (C' ); The prevailing tone of the composition
rather is that of an elegy--the burial of fond hopes. The Pianolist A Guide for
Pianola Players;
dirge {requiem = threnode = coronach}
(dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in
commemoration of the dead, (C " C'); "Life is
what we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of
despair."A Princess in Calico;
(requiem)- any musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead,
( h CC' Ch ); It was a requiem,
a dirge, a moan, a howl a wail, a lament, an abstract of everything that is
sorrowful and hideous in sound. Charles Dickens and Music;
the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead;
(threnode/ threnody)- a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the
dead; dirge; funeral song;
(coronach)- (in Scotland and Ireland) a song or lamentation for the dead;
dirge; The dismal coronach resound. The Lady of the Lake;
deplore = expiate = atone = rue = regret = repent = mourn = plaint = lament =
bemoan = bewail = dirge


(deplore)- to regret deeply or strongly; lament, ( Ch
; C'l ); I confess I have much to deplore, and much for
which to be thankful. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men;
to disapprove of; censure, ( );
(expiate)- to atone for; make amends or reparation for; I have many sins
to expiate, and though I be deathless, life is all too short for the atonement.
Warlord of Mars;
(atone)- to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for
an offender, (C'C; ; ); Fasting allows us
to atone, leads us toward change and humbles us before the Almighty;
(rue)- to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly, ( ;
"); We had numerous chances over the game and we were left to rue the
fact that we missed them;
(regret)- to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.),
( ; ; C; Ch; ; C' ; ); The heart at such
moments tries to be grateful without regret, and hopeful without indifference.
Father Payne;
(repent)- to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret
or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc., (C'l
"f ; " ); If he has anything to repent, it is not to the world
that he confesses. John Knox and the Reformation;
(mourn)- to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or
anything regretted); deplore, (C' ; C' "); To human
reason the death of him we mourn was untimely. Memorial Addresses on the
Life and Character of William H F Lee;
(plaint)- a lament; lamentation, (); Even in her inmost thoughts
her plaint was this,--that he, her son, should be doomed to suffer so deeply
for her sin! Orley Farm;
a complaint, (' C); It begins with a plaint, that is full of cynic
despair; thence it breaks suddenly into a cheerful andante. Contemporary
American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country;
(bemoan)- to express distress or grief over; lament, (C' ' ); The
mother bemoaned the death of her beloved son;
to regard with regret or disapproval; What I bemoan is the growing
prevalence of the brutal truth. Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories;
(bewail)- to express deep sorrow for; lament, (() C' ^ ;


( C )); The result was that he wandered, half-
distracted, like Lear, bewailing the wound at his heart which a daughter's
hand had given. The Adventure of Living;
(dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in
commemoration of the dead, (C " C'); "Life is
what we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of
despair."A Princess in Calico;
expiate <> expatiate = expound = exposit = explicate = elaborate = dilate
{distend} = lucubrate
(expatiate)- to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or
discussion, (C C Cl ); It is unnecessary to expatiate on
the effect of this downright refusal of the woman's proposals. The
Deerslayer;
(expound)- to explain; interpret, ( ; C
); But it is a craven apology if we stoop to expound: we are seen
as pleading our case before the public. Lord Ormont and His Aminta
Volume 1;
(exposit)- to expound, as a theory, cause, or the like; However many of the
views they exposit are rejected by mainstream science and have been
repeatedly refuted. Harry Clarke;
(explicate)- to make plain or clear; explain; interpret, (C "
C; ; ' ); There is something of the snake eating its own tail
here, since logical probability was supposed to explicate the confirmation of
scientific theories. Interpretations of Probability;
(dilate)- to make wider or larger; cause to expand, ( C\ );
Her eyes began slowly to dilate, and she shivered as though with cold. The
Malefactor;
(lucubrate)- to write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship; To lounge
and lucubrate, to prate and peep; Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1;
to work, write, or study laboriously, esp. at night;
languish <> languid
(languish)- to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade, (C ";
q "; \D "; CC C - C
\); As long as global companies are afflicted by huge capital shortages,
stock markets are likely to languish or grind downward, analysts say;
(languid)- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow, (q; C);
Her manner was extremely languid, as of a person suffering from nervous


exhaustionMiss Ludington's Sister;
lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent,(\D; \);
pine = yearn = yen = languish : longing = nostalgia
(pine)- languish, decline, long for, yearn, (Ch C C '
" C ); His wife, who had always been
more devoted to her children than her husband, pined, and died also. Paul
Faber, Surgeon;
(yearn)- to have an earnest or strong desire; long, (
; " Ch C " ); The fighting spirit in
him yearned, and in a moment his victim was caught up in a crushing
embrace. The Man in the Twilight;
(yen)- a yearning for something or to do something;
(longing)- prolonged unfulfilled desire or need;
(nostalgia)- longing for something past;
pine^ repine = grouse = complain <> complaint = yielding
(repine)- to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain, ( ;
"); "Don't repine -- nerve yourself with resolution, and all will be well!"
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith;
(grouse)- to grumble; complain, (C CC ; ' );
My only grouse was the slightly under-portioned serving of beef compared to
the rice;
any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae, ('C
C' C l C);
(complaint)- an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure,
resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding, ('; C);
Your complaint is against fate and humanity rather than against the poet
Tennyson. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning;
(yield)- to give up or surrender, ( ; C CC
"); Some of Roosevelt's critics construed his yielding, at the last moment,
as evidence of his being ruled by Platt after all. Theodore Roosevelt An
Intimate Biography;
to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation,
( C h q "); This crop ranges from 25 to
65 bushels per acre, and the difference in the yield is to be attributed to the
manner of cultivation;
redemption = salvation > salvage = relieve
(redemption)- repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or


before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock);
the act of purchasing back something previously sold;
(salvation)- the state of being saved or preserved from harm;
(salvage)- compensation given to those who voluntarily save a ship or its
cargo, ( h CC ); Their livelihood
from salvage, as may be supposed, is very precarious. The Lifeboat;
(relieve)- to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.), (
Ch"; ( Ch h) Cl ' ); He
shrugged his shoulders in an attempt to relieve some of the growing soreness
from the heavy pack. The Order War;
restitution = redress = amends = damages = reparation = fix = compensation =
indemnification > indemnity
(restitution)- reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for
loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification, (l C C
C h); In cases where the victim did not want restitution, the guilty
parties had no obligations imposed on them;
(redress)- compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury, ( C'
; f f ); He promptly laid before the
Legislature a petition for redress, setting forth the facts of the case and the
motives of his rival. Great Fortunes and How They Were Made;
to adjust evenly again, as a balance, ( " ); The
people have sore grievances, and they do not get the redress which is their
due. The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief;
(amends)- reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any
kind; recompense, (q ; l ;
h ' C' ); The next night the fickle Romans
made ample amends, for the opera was concluded amid the warmest
applause, even from the friends of Paisiello. The Great Italian and French
Composers;
(reparation)- the making of amends for wrong or injury done, ( ;
' C C - h C ); Their repentance
consisting in a visible and manifest reparation, they lose the colour of alleging
it both to God and man. The Essays of Montaigne Complete;
(fix)- to repair; mend, (CC; l ; );
(indemnification)- something that serves to indemnify; compensation,
( ; C); The only means to get this indemnification is the
restoration of Hungary to its independence by a new revolutionSelect


Speeches of Kossuth;
(indemnity)- protection or security against damage or loss, (
CC C ; ; C); As soon as
the indemnity was paid--and it was an indemnity that could be paid in one
lump sum--Prussia evacuated the occupied territory. Peaceless Europe;
redress : remediable = reparable
(redress)- compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury, ( C'
; f f ); He promptly laid before the
Legislature a petition for redress, setting forth the facts of the case and the
motives of his rival. Great Fortunes and How They Were Made;
to adjust evenly again, as a balance, ( " ); The
people have sore grievances, and they do not get the redress which is their
due. The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief;
(remediable)- capable of being remedied, (C; ;
C'); If the esophageal stenosis is not readily and quickly remediable,
gastrostomy should be done immediately Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A
Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery;
(irremediable) - not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair, ( ); Past
mistakes are irremediable, and it behooves me to consider only the future.
Infelice;
amend ~ emend > emendation
(emends)- to edit or change (a text), ( C' ); Lumsden himself
never emends the text. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography;
to free from faults or errors; correct;
(emendation)- a correction or change, as of a text, (C');
This emendation is ingenious enough to deserve to be true. Notes to
Shakespeare Volume 01: Comedies;
compensation > compensate > compensatory
(compensate)- to counterbalance; offset; be equivalent to, ( ;
C Ch");
(compensatory)- serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury,
( ); Once the stipulated compensatory arrangements have been
made, Luna shall be free and sovereign. The Stars Are Also Fire;
fix : anchor : ensconce ~ embed
(anchor)- to fix or fasten; affix firmly, (C C); The British began
bombarding the small island from a fleet of warships anchored offshore;
(ensconce)- to settle securely or snugly, ((h C h C)


CC " ); Sconce and ensconce are constantly used figuratively
for _hide Hamlet;
(embed)- to surround tightly or firmly; envelop or enclose, (h|C C C
"); These paths become fixed, embedded, and ingrained only when
nerve currents pass over them time and time again. Human Traits and their
Social Significance;













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