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plaintive

 (adj): expressing sorrow
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7 months ago Minerva said:

I send this by a special messenger who has business only so far as Barnet, because you shall have no need to write again; knowing how you love writing: and knowing likewise, that misfortune makes people plaintive.

Mrs. Howe to Clarissa Harlowe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

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