10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREARIMENT»
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dreariment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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A New Universal Etymological, Technological and Pronouncing ...
Fined with grief of fully late repented.— Spenser. Drearily, dre're-le, ad. Gloomily ;
dismally. Dreariment, dre're-ment, s. Dismalness; melancholy; horror. — Obsolete
. I teach the woods and waters to lament Your doleful dreariment — Spenser.
John Craig (lexicographer.), 1849
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
DREAR'IMENT, / Sorrow; dismalness; melancholy : I teach the woods and waters
to lament Your doleful dreariment. Spenser. Horror ; dread ; terror. Obsolete :
Almighty Jove, in wrathful mood, To wreak the guilt of mortal sins is bent ; Hurls ...
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A Select Collection of Old Plays: Wounds of civil war
Then waiting death I mean to seat me here; Hoping that consuls' name and fear
of laws, Shall justify my conscience and my cause. Enter a MESSENGER. Now,
sirrah, what confused looks are these? What tidings bringest thou of dreariment ?
Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, 1825
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A select collection of old plays: In twelve volumes
Now, sirrah, what -confused looks are these? What tidings bringest thou of
dreariment 'Z 3' Messenger. My lords, the consul Cinna, with his friends, Have let
in Marius by Via Appia, Whose soldiers waste and murder all they meet; Who,
with the ...
5
Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor ...
... dealt the froward Fates with thee, Good Alemshae, for thou didst die in field
And so preventedst this sad spectacle; Pitiful spectacle of sad dreariment, Pitiful
spectacle of dismal death. But I have lived to see thee, Alemshae, By Tartar
pirates ...
Daniel J. Vitkus Robert Daborne Philip Massinger, Daniel Vitkus, 2013
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A Select Collection of Old Plays: The wounds of civil war; ...
Then waiting death I mean to seat me here; Hoping that consuls' name and fear
of laws, Shall justify my conscience and my cause. Enter a Messenger. Now,
sirrah, what confused looks are these?What tidings bringest thou of dreariment ?
Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, 1825
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Constructional Change in English: Developments in ...
Type 6: Adjectival, action, intransitive, binary, derived A distinctive, if infrequent,
configuration of the V—ment construction during the third period is represented
by the six forms coldment, dreariment,jolliment,justment, merriment, and
mariment.
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Complete)
For, when I saw thee get thee gone upon our parting day, My eyes, for very
dreariment, with tears of blood did rain. I wiped them with my hand, and somy
fingers with my blood Were all toreddened anddoyet their ruddy tint retain." Had I
for very ...
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A select collection of old plays [ed. by R. Dodsley].
31 Dreariment is not so frequently met in any of our old writers as Spenser : I do
not recollect it in any play before. It requires no explanation. Lepidus. No storm of
fate shall bring my sorrows down 50 THE WOUNDs OF CIVIL WAR. [ACT IV.
Select collection, John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, 1825
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
DREARIMENT. n.s. [from dreary.] l.Sor- row ; dismalness ; melancholy. — I teach
the woods and waters to lament Your doleful dreariment. Spenser. j. Horrour ;
dread ; terrour. This word is no» obsolete. — Almighty Jove, in wrathful mood, ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1816
