SAD'NESS, n.
1. Sorrowfulness mournfulness dejection of mind as grief and sadness at the memory of sin.
2. A melancholy look gloom of countenance.
Dim sadness did not spare Celestial visages.
3. Seriousness sedate gravity. Let every thing in a mournful subject have an air of sadness.
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