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lachrymose
/ˈlækrəˌmoʊs/
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What does lachrymose mean?
adjective
- Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlækrəˌmoʊs/
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M. Nioche drained his pungent glass at a long draught, and looked out from eyes more lachrymose in consequence.
But I would not be lachrymose: I dashed off the salt drops, and busied myself with preparing breakfast.
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I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose.
One Saturday, before the "blessed Easter," he came back from a long debauch, ragged and filthy, but in a state of lachrymose repentance.
The images are brought face to face in the middle of the church, the crowd falls prostrate, and a lachrymose sermon is delivered from the pulpit.