[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That sorrows or mourns; mournful.
c. 1615. Sir W. Mure, Misc. Poems, xii. 3. My sorowing sighes … do not dispyse.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., II. 296. The condition of all sorrowing Penitents.
1787. Burns, Ode Birthday Pr. Chas. Edward, 15. We solemnize this sorrowing natal day, To prove our loyal truth.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam, II. x. The sorrowing gale Waked in those ruins gray its everlasting wail!
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. ii. Known by and by as Girondins, to the sorrowing wonder of the world.
1888. Miss Braddon, Fatal Three, I. vi. He had not the nerve to go into the cottage and face that sorrowing widow.
Hence Sorrowingly adv.
1865. Athenæum, 8 July, 43/1. The great admiral then sorrowingly alludes to the difficulty of discharging the ships.
