dolent

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Dole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John

By turns they were dolent, forsaken, languorous, and haughty.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

On a day this chanced to you; Out of Limousin there drew One, a pilgrim, sore adread, Lay in pain upon his bed, Tossed, and took with fear his breath, Very dolent, near to death.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

After "that most dolent day"* we hear no more of Dunbar.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

But the dolent accents returned as he opened his proofs and read them.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick