sorrowing

English

Verb

sorrowing

1. present participle and gerund of sorrow

Noun

sorrowing (plural sorrowings)

1. The act of feeling sorrow.
   • 2011, Clifford Williams, Existential Reasons for Belief in God:

     The daily sorrowings of grief and repentance are genuine emotions. It is simply not legitimate to maintain that the real emotions are the initial bursts of high-pitched passions […]