Sadness

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Sadness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SAD'NESS, n.

1. Sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind; as grief and sadness at the memory of sin.

2. A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.

Dim sadness did not spare Celestial visages.

3. Seriousness; sedate gravity. Let every thing in a mournful subject have an air of sadness.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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