The quality or state of being without sorrow, or the removal of sorrow or grief.
From de- (removal/negation) + dolence (from Latin 'dolentia,' pain or sorrow). An obsolete English word from medieval and Renaissance periods.
Medieval and Renaissance writers created pairs of words—'dolence' (sadness) and 'dedolence' (lack of sadness)—creating a symmetry that sounds poetic. It's like old English had a word for 'un-sadness.'
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