What is melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. Spenser. All full of chirking was this sorry place. Chaucer called?
sorry — Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. Spenser. All full of chirking was this sorry place. Chaucer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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