What's the difference between lachrymatory and lachrymose?
Lachrymatory
Definition:
(n.) A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus the lachrymatory action follows a general scheme for the activity of sensory transduction.
(2) Similar compounds without lachrymatory activity were reduced either very slowly or not at all.
(3) The lachrymatory substance in onions is propenyl sulfenic acid.
Lachrymose
Definition:
(a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Example Sentences:
(1) She is deeply feeling for her country, her people and for those around her, and yet she has never been lachrymose.
(2) The prime minister's lachrymose performance had nothing to do with his agitated emotional state, Dmitry Peskov said, but was the result of an icy breeze whipping over the Kremlin's historic cobbles.
(3) Yanis Varoufakis: maverick economist with Greece’s fate in his hands Read more If Hardouvelis, had had his way the handover would have been uneventful, if a little lachrymose.
(4) But it had been a different week – no rallies, more fear than rage; stunned, lachrymose, frightened and frightening at every level and turn.
(5) But at the same time, lachrymose athletes are funny.
(6) But lachrymose apologies are neither the French nor Hollande's way.
(7) Eulogies have a tendency to be lachrymose and overblown but I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say that a part of British pop music has died with it.
(8) Arnett’s Gob Bluth – an insanely unintegrated magician , clueless cocksman and a champion of lachrymose self-loathing in times of crisis – stood out as a brilliant comic creation even among the monsters and gargoyles in the rest of the cast.
(9) The young women, in the book, alas, are both inspid and lachrymose.
(10) Lone Survivor is decidedly not The Green Berets, John Wayne's second feature as a director from 1968, deluded and lachrymose propaganda for a war that a majority of Americans by then already wanted to be over.
(11) It takes a lot to make this cynic weep, but I'm seriously waxing lachrymose now.
(12) The floodgates had burst even before half time, presaging the tidal wave of lachrymosity that was to engulf the country.