Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sorriest"

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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