Meaning of tristful | Babel Free

Definitions

Sad, melancholic.

archaic

Examples

“Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime, Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.”

“[…] Heaven’s face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.”

“[…] So shine thy tristfull light With pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright The world:”

“1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184, I 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 […]”

“A wistful look in your mirror, and an air of tristful languor in public, and a sense of being deeper than you thought you were, if you ever thought about it at all.”

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