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   Sadness, n.
   Heaviness; firmness. [Obs.]
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   Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.]
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   Her sadness and her benignity.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
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   Dim sadness did not spare
   That time celestial visages.
   Milton.
   
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   Syn. -- Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.
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