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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdɒlə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdəʊlə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdoʊlɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dolour.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dolour2.wav , En-us-dolour.oga [General-American] Forms: dolours [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ), -əʊlə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman dolour, Old French dolour, dolor, dulur (“pain”) (modern French douleur (“pain; distress”)), from Latin dolor (“ache, hurt, pain; anguish, grief, sorrow; anger, indignation, resentment”), from doleō (“to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). The English word is a doublet of dol. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*delh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|dolour|t=physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction}} Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”), {{nb...|doloure, dolowre|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{der|en|xno|dolour}} Anglo-Norman dolour, {{der|en|fro|dolour}} Old French dolour, {{m|fro|dolor}} dolor, {{m|fro|dulur|t=pain}} dulur (“pain”), {{cog|fr|douleur|t=pain; distress}} French douleur (“pain; distress”), {{der|en|la|dolor|t=ache, hurt, pain; anguish, grief, sorrow; anger, indignation, resentment}} Latin dolor (“ache, hurt, pain; anguish, grief, sorrow; anger, indignation, resentment”), {{m|la|doleō|t=to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament}} doleō (“to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*delh₁-|t=to divide, split}} Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”), {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|masculine}} masculine, {{glossary|abstract noun}} abstract noun, {{m|la|-or|pos=suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns}} -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns), {{!}} |, {{doublet|en|dol|nocap=1}} doublet of dol Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dolour (countable and uncountable, plural dolours)
  1. (chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow. Tags: UK, literary, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions, Pain Synonyms: infelicity, joylessness, sadness, unhappiness, unjoy Translations (anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow): печал (pečal) (Bulgarian), скръб (skrǎb) (Bulgarian), dolor (Catalan), 悲哀 (bēi'āi) (Chinese Mandarin), 傷心 (Chinese Mandarin), 伤心 (shāngxīn) (Chinese Mandarin), smerte (Danish), smart [feminine] (Dutch), douleur [feminine] (French), deuil [masculine] (French), dor [feminine] (Galician), Schmerz [masculine] (German), (Hungarian), ong (Irish), dólás [masculine] (Irish), dolore [masculine] (Italian), 悲哀 (hiai) (alt: ひあい) (Japanese), dolor (Latin), boleść [feminine] (Polish), rozpacz [feminine] (Polish), żal [masculine] (Polish), го́ре (góre) [neuter] (Russian), гру́сть (grústʹ) [feminine] (Russian), печа́ль (pečálʹ) [feminine] (Russian), ско́рбь (skórbʹ) [feminine] (Russian), тоска́ (toská) [feminine] (Russian), dolor (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-dolour-en-noun-RMu4ECjU Disambiguation of Emotions: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pain: 76 24 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 82 18 Disambiguation of 'anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow': 93 7
  2. (countable, economics, ethics) In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes. Tags: UK, countable Categories (topical): Economics, Ethics Synonyms: dol
    Sense id: en-dolour-en-noun-fg~PSOA7 Topics: economics, ethics, human-sciences, philosophy, science, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dolor [US]

Noun [Old French]

Forms: dolour oblique singular or [canonical, feminine], dolours [oblique, plural], dolour [nominative, singular], dolours [nominative, plural]
Head templates: {{fro-noun|f}} dolour oblique singular, f (oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours)
  1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur Tags: Anglo-Norman, alt-of Alternative form of: dulur
    Sense id: en-dolour-fro-noun-fec97149 Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "US"
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}

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    {
      "form": "dolour oblique singular or",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dolours",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dolour",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "dolours",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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          "word": "dulur"
        }
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          "name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        {
          "english": "Who could think of or imagine the pain and the suffering that you, my dear lady, have endured.",
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          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur"
      ],
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        [
          "dulur",
          "dulur#Old French"
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        "Anglo-Norman",
        "alt-of"
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}
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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *delh₁-",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒlə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒlə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊlə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊlə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
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    "en:Pain"
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      "name": "root"
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      "expansion": "Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”)",
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      "name": "nb..."
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "dolour"
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      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman dolour",
      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "dolour"
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      "expansion": "Old French dolour",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "dolor"
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      "expansion": "dolor",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "dulur",
        "t": "pain"
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      "expansion": "dulur (“pain”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "douleur",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "dolor",
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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "doleō (“to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "suffix",
      "name": "glossary"
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        "1": "masculine"
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      "expansion": "masculine",
      "name": "glossary"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "abstract noun"
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      "expansion": "abstract noun",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
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      "expansion": "-or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns)",
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "|",
      "name": "!"
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      "args": {
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "word": "dolorimeter"
    },
    {
      "word": "doloroso"
    },
    {
      "word": "dolorous"
    },
    {
      "word": "dolorously"
    },
    {
      "word": "dolorousness"
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    {
      "word": "endolour"
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    {
      "word": "undolorous"
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "elation"
        },
        {
          "word": "felicity"
        },
        {
          "word": "happiness"
        },
        {
          "word": "joy"
        }
      ],
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        "English literary terms",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Anguish",
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        ],
        [
          "grief",
          "grief#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "misery",
          "misery"
        ],
        [
          "sorrow",
          "sorrow#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "infelicity"
        },
        {
          "word": "joylessness"
        },
        {
          "word": "sadness"
        },
        {
          "word": "unhappiness"
        },
        {
          "word": "unjoy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "literary",
        "uncountable"
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    {
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          "word": "hedon"
        },
        {
          "word": "util"
        },
        {
          "word": "utile"
        },
        {
          "word": "utilon"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Economics",
        "en:Ethics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Rosemarie Tong, Ethics in Policy Analysis (Occupational Ethics Series), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, page 16",
          "text": "Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes."
      ],
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        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
        ],
        [
          "ethics",
          "ethics"
        ],
        [
          "utilitarianism",
          "utilitarianism"
        ],
        [
          "unit",
          "unit"
        ],
        [
          "pain",
          "pain#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "used",
          "use#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "theoretically",
          "theoretically"
        ],
        [
          "weigh",
          "weigh"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "outcome",
          "outcome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, economics, ethics) In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dol"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "countable"
      ],
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        "economics",
        "ethics",
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "science",
        "sciences"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɒlə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdəʊlə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdoʊlɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "dollar (some accents)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒlə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊlə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
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        "General-American"
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "word": "dolor"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pečal",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "печал"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "skrǎb",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "скръб"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "dolor"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bēi'āi",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "悲哀"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "傷心"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shāngxīn",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "伤心"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "smerte"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "smart"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "douleur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "deuil"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dor"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schmerz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "bú"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "ong"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dólás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dolore"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ひあい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hiai",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "悲哀"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "dolor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "boleść"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rozpacz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "żal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "góre",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "го́ре"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grústʹ",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гру́сть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pečálʹ",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "печа́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skórbʹ",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ско́рбь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "toská",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тоска́"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow — see also sorrow",
      "word": "dolor"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dolour"
}

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      "form": "dolour oblique singular or",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dolours",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dolour",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dolours",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "dolour oblique singular, f (oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours)",
      "name": "fro-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "dulur"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old French feminine nouns",
        "Old French lemmas",
        "Old French nouns",
        "Old French terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Who could think of or imagine the pain and the suffering that you, my dear lady, have endured.",
          "text": "qi purroit penser ou ymaginer la dolour et les peynes qe vous, ma douz Dame, endurastes.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dulur",
          "dulur#Old French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Anglo-Norman",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dolour"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'dolour oblique singular or', originally 'dolour oblique singular or f'",
  "path": [
    "dolour"
  ],
  "section": "Old French",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "dolour",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'dolour oblique singular or', originally 'dolour oblique singular or f'",
  "path": [
    "dolour"
  ],
  "section": "Old French",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "dolour",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
  "msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'dolour oblique singular or' in 'dolour oblique singular, f (oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours)'",
  "path": [
    "dolour"
  ],
  "section": "Old French",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "dolour",
  "trace": ""
}

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