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   Word of the Day for Monday April 1, 2002:

   lachrymose \LAK-ruh-mohs\, adjective:
   1. Given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
   2. Causing or tending to cause tears.

     At  the farewell party on the boat, Joyce was surrounded by
     a lachrymose family.
     --Edna  O'Brien,  "She  Was the Other Ireland," [1]New York
     Times, June 19, 1988

     I  promise  to do my best, and if at any time my resolution
     lapses,  pen  me a few fierce vitriolic words and you shall
     receive  by  the next post a lachrymose & abject apology in
     my most emotional hand writing.
     --Rupert Brooke, letter to James Strachey, July 7, 1905

     The  game is perpetuated by the sons in a sometimes vicious
     sibling  rivalry  that  inevitably subsides into lachrymose
     reconciliation.
     --Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb, [2]O'Neill: Life With Monte
     Cristo

     Meanwhile,  a  lachrymose  new  waltz,  "After  The Ball Is
     Over," was sweeping the nation.
     --Benjamin   Welles,   [3]Sumner   Welles:   FDR's   Global
     Strategist
     _________________________________________________________

   Lachrymose is from Latin lacrimosus, from lacrima, "tear."

References

   1. http://www.nytimes.com/
   2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399146091/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
   3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312174403/ref%3Dnosim/lexico


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