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Doleful adj. sorrowful, mournful, melancholy.
Dole 2 n. Archaic. grief or sorrow; lamentation. . . . variation of dolor [mL = dol(ére) (to) feel pain + -or -OR1; r. ME dolour < AF]
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968.]
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