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Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.] Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer.

Infirmity; weakness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras. Doleful dumps the mind oppress. Shak. I was musing in the midst of my dumps. Bunyan.

From Dump sadness.]

To constitute; to make up with elements. His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness. Walton.

cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. The mother was so afflicted at the loss of a fine boy, . . . that she died for grief of it. Addison.

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome. I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely. H. James.

feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. xxiii. 2.

Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. Prior.

the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham.

he expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great a sorrow suffereth now Arcite! Chaucer. The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. Rambler.

unish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to. Spare us, good Lord. Book of Common Prayer. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Man alone can whom he conquers spare. Waller.

To relieve from sadness; to cheer. [R.] Whitlock.

Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; sentimental pessimism.