"tristful" meaning in English

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          "text": "Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime,\nWhich forced me to tell this tristfull tale."
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          "ref": "1648, Seneca the Younger, translated by Edward Sherburne, Medea, London: Humphrey Moseley, act IV, scene 2, page 42",
          "text": "[…] So shine thy tristfull light\nWith pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright\nThe world:",
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          "text": "1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184,\nI think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller […]"
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          "ref": "1927, Warwick Deeping, Doomsday, Part 3, Chapter 24",
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        "(archaic) Sad, melancholic."
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          "text": "Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime,\nWhich forced me to tell this tristfull tale."
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