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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sorry  \Sor"ry\,  a.  [Compar.  {Sorrier};  superl.  {Sorriest}.]  [OE. 
  sory,  sary,  AS  s[=a]rig,  fr  s[=a]r,  n.,  sore.  See  {Sore}, 
  n.  &  a.  The  original  sense  was  painful;  hence  miserable, 
  sad.] 
  1.  Grieved  for  the  loss  of  some  good;  pained  for  some  evil; 
  feeling  regret;  --  now  generally  used  to  express  light 
  grief  or  affliction,  but  formerly  often  used  to  express 
  deeper  feeling.  ``I  am  sorry  for  my  sins.''  --Piers 
  Plowman. 
 
  Ye  were  made  sorry  after  a  godly  manner.  --2  Cor. 
  vii.  9. 
 
  I  am  sorry  for  thee,  friend;  't  is  the  duke's 
  pleasure.  --Shak. 
 
  She  entered,  were  he  lief  or  sorry.  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  Melancholy;  dismal;  gloomy;  mournful.  --Spenser. 
 
  All  full  of  chirking  was  this  sorry  place 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  3.  Poor;  mean  worthless;  as  a  sorry  excuse.  ``With  sorry 
  grace.''  --Chaucer. 
 
  Cheeks  of  sorry  grain  will  serve.  --Milton. 
 
  Good  fruit  will  sometimes  grow  on  a  sorry  tree. 
  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  Syn:  Hurt;  afflicted;  mortified;  vexed;  chagrined; 
  melancholy;  dismal;  poor;  mean  pitiful.




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