What does oversorrow mean?
Oversorrow means (transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively..
He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that serene and blissful condition it was in at the beginning, and shall deserve of all …
" Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself."
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Oversorrow means (transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively..
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He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that serene and blissful condition it was in at the beginning, and shall deserve of all …
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