Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sorrow
nounsorrowing (plural sorrowings)
plural sorrowings
- The act of feeling sorrow.
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[…]
2011, Clifford Williams, Existential Reasons for Belief in God
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivesorrowful through loss or deprivation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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sorrowing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sorrowing
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“sorrowing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sorrowing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sorrowing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sorrowing.
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