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† ˈdoleance Obs.
Also 5 doleaunce, 6 dolliance, doliaunce.
[a. F. doléance, earlier doliance, douliance (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) f. doleant, -iant, ancient pr. pple. of doloir, douloir to grieve.]
1. Sorrowing, grieving; sorrow, grief.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn vi. 26 Herynge the cryes, & seeynge þe wepynges, the grete sorowe & doleaunce of the vertuose and noble mayden. 1523in Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 103 By way of doleance and sorrow. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vii. (1677) 519 Esteeming it their duty to express their doleance for that accident.
2. Plaintive utterance; complaining, complaint.
1524St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 104 Albeit ye make some doleance in your letters. 1524in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xii. 30 Any motion, by way of complainte or doliaunce. 1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 198 All their dolliances herd and remedied. 1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 97 The substance of these doleances, I..imparted to the..Ambassador. |