Causing or producing pain, sorrow, or distress; characterized by grief or suffering.
From Latin dolor (pain) + -fic (making/causing); a rare word formed in learned English during the 17th-18th centuries.
Medieval and Renaissance writers used 'dolorific' to describe situations that caused emotional pain—it's the feeling-based cousin of the physical 'pain-producing' sense.
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