besorrow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Then to the woman, for her offence, God did pronounce this sore sentence: All pleasure that you had'st besorrow Shall changed be in lasting sorrow."
- "The land of the West holds a maiden sweet, And the fairest face has she; But, oh! she has also Chicago feet, And that's what besorrows me."
- "Oh, heart of man, when griefs deep scar Ploughs through thy and sand, When soul and sense besorrowed are, Lead, lark of love, 'yond sun and star; […]"
- "Dear Peter, newly was I with the car in the town to besorrow me this and that for the holidays."
Etymology
From Middle English bisorȝen, from Old English besorgian (“to regret; be anxious about, dread, shrink from”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisorgōn, equivalent to be- + sorrow. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bisúurgje (“to obtain, get, take care of”), West Frisian besoargje (“to provide, deliver”), Dutch bezorgen (“to provide, deliver, take care of”), German besorgen (“to procure, acquire, attend to, take care of”), Swedish besörja (“to deal with, attend to”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bisorȝen, besorgian, *bisorgōn
Inflected Forms
besorrows (present, singular)
besorrowing (participle, present)
besorrowed (participle, past)
besorrowed (past)