v. Obs. Also 4 insorwe-n. [ME. insorwen, f. IN- + sorwen SORROW v.; in 16th c. independently f. EN-1 + SORROW sb.] a. intr. To be in pain or sorrow; to sorrow. b. trans. To render sorrowful; to annoy, distress.

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1382.  Wyclif, Rom. viii. 22. Ech creature insorwith, and childith, or worchith with angwis, til ȝit.

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1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 78. To the ensorrowing the frontiers of sinne.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. iii. (1632), 465. The body … is wasted, and ensorrowed.

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