different between blighting vs woeful

English

blighting

blighting (plural blightings)

The act by which something is blighted.
- 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator
  They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]

From Middle English woful, waful, equivalent to woe +? -ful. Compare Old English w?l?? (“woeful”), Old English t?onful (“woeful”).

woeful (comparative woefuller, superlative woefullest)

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
- How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
a woeful event
a woeful lack of restraint
Lamentable, deplorable.
Wretched; paltry; poor.

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