lachrymal

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin lachrymālis, from lachryma (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lacrimal.

And, following this, the little girl lifted her voice in lachrymal lament. — Americans All: Stories of American Life of To-Day, Unknown
The tears rushed to my eyes, but I stopped them in their lachrymal sluices, and called it folly, for to weep I cannot, I will not. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
A fresh torrent of tears burst from their lachrymal ducts and the vast concourse of people, touched to the inmost core, broke into heartrending sobs, not the least affected being the aged prebendary himself. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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