Oversorrow

Quick meaning: Oversorrow is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively.

Example Sentences

" Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself."

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 …

Word Forms

• oversorrows
• oversorrowing
• oversorrowed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overmourn, overaffect, overagonize, overswear, overadorn, oversoften.

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