[f. SORROW v. + -ER1.] One who sorrows; a mourner.
1727. Collect. Epigr., cdlxii. Take the soft sorrower at her word, and try How deeply rooted woman’s vows can lie.
1788. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 19 Nov. My account … was most meekly received by the most patient of sorrowers.
1850. T. T. Lynch, Theoph. Trinal, ii. 19. His wines, that make him for an hour less a sorrower.
1873. Maurice, Serm. in Co. Churches, 249. We shall ask that … the Comforter may visit us and all the sorrowers of the earth.
