dolorous

murheellinen solemn Solemnly or ponderously sad.
1596, w:Edmund Spenser|Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 4:

Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,

Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,

Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.

. . . Hell itself will pass away,

And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.

From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.

As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.