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  2. Tragedy - Wikipedia

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    A tragedy (from the Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia [a]) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters. [2] Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsis, or a "pain [that] awakens pleasure,” for the ...

  3. Sorrow (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    Romanticism saw a cult of sorrow develop, reaching back to The Sorrows of Young Werther of 1774, and extending through the nineteenth century with contributions like Tennyson's "In Memoriam" — "O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me/No casual mistress, but a wife" [3] — up to W. B. Yeats in 1889, still "of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming". [4]

  4. Symphony No. 3 (Górecki) - Wikipedia

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    "Symphony No. 3 «Symphony of Sorrowful Songs» Op. 36 for solo soprano and orchestra by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. Contribution to the monograph. The verbal layer, the musical structure and verbal-musical connections in the first part - Lento, Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile." Master's thesis under the direction of Hab. Dr. Robert Kurdybacha.

  5. Our Lady of Sorrows - Wikipedia

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    Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which Mary, mother of Jesus, is referred to in relation to sorrows in life.

  6. Agony in the Garden - Wikipedia

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    In Agony in the Garden, Jesus prays in the garden after the Last Supper while the disciples sleep and Judas leads the mob, by Andrea Mantegna c. 1460.. In Roman Catholic tradition, the Agony in the Garden is the first Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary [8] and the First Station of the Scriptural Way of the Cross (second station in the Philippine version).

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  8. Jabez (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    Jabez is a man appearing in the Book of Chronicles.He is implied to be ancestor of the Kings of Judah, although not explicitly included in the lineage. [1] His mother named him Jabez (Hebrew יַעְבֵּץ [ya'betz]), [2] meaning "he makes sorrowful", because his birth was difficult. [3]

  9. Ambivalence - Wikipedia

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    The psychological literature has distinguished between several different forms of ambivalence. [4] One, often called subjective ambivalence or felt ambivalence, represents the psychological experience of conflict (affective manifestation), mixed feelings, mixed reactions (cognitive manifestation), and indecision (behavioral manifestation) in the evaluation of some object.