Definition of "sorrowing" [sorrowing]

• Present participle of sorrow. (verb)

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• "All civilized nations tender us their sympathy, and unite with us in sorrowing over our sad bereavement."
• "Dissolving, then, in sorrowing regret, recollections of maternal tenderness bathed her pillow with her tears, and reversing all the inducements to her sad resignation, abolished every wish but to fall again at the parental feet."
• "We may well think how deep the sorrow of this poor mother was for her only son (such sorrowing is referred to as expressive of the greatest grief, -- Zech.xii. 10), and it was the deeper in that she was a widow, broken with breach upon breach, and a full end made of her comforts."