lacrimose

comparative more lacrimose · superlative most lacrimose

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of lachrymose.

   “What, wallowing in loneliness?” asked Jane. “I can hear your heartrate falling and your breathing getting heavy. In a moment you’ll either be asleep, dead, or lacrimose.”

   1986, Orson Scott Card, “Speaker for the Dead”, in Ender’s War (Ender’s Game; 1–2), Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →OCLC, chapter 6 (Olhado), page 379

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   The onion-man, become blear-eyed by constantly eating acrid tear-bringing onions. / The Endive besides, stretching out with feet like horses— / The tear-producing onion also, with its lacrimose shells in due succession— / . . . a pitcher and a long bowl with two handles— / Go on and prosper with your virtue, say I, and with these verses.

   1852, Caius Lucilius, translated by Lewis Evans, “Fragments of Lucilius”, in The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius, Literally Translated into English Prose, […], London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 304, lines 13–17

   He was a lacrimose and remarkable-looking fellow, and Maggie saw at once two other even more remarkable things about him: he was waving a big blue squarish gun and he looked oddly familiar—suddenly she recognized the face in the backseat of Joe Dale’s car from long ago.

   2010, Jaimy Gordon, “Third Race: Pelter”, in Lord of Misrule, Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, →ISBN, page 200