obs. var. SORROWFUL a.
Prob. due to confusion with sory SORRY a.
c. 1550. H. Lloyd, Treas. Health, c ij. Soryful syghes in sharpe agewes be to be fearyd.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 239. Quhilke maid the king sa soryfull … that [etc.].
