dolor
- n (poetry) painful grief
- Pathology textbooks take refuge in rolling Latin, describing inflammation by its signs: rubor, calor, tumor, dolor (redness, heat, swelling, pain).
- The reason for all this dolor: herpes, an ancient viral infection that can be transmitted during sex, recurs fitfully and cannot be cured.
- The fact that Ian Curtis hung himself shortly after its 1980 release undoubtedly has some effect on how we perceive it now, but the relentlessness of its dolor would be a towering .