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woe
English
Etymology
From Middle English wo, wei, wa, from Old English w?, w?, from Proto-Germanic *wai (interjection), whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish ????? (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (interjection). Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek ???? (ouaí), Persian ???? (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian ??? (vay).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??/
- (General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /wo?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: whoa (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
woe (countable and uncountable, plural woes)
- Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- Synonyms: grief, sorrow, misery
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
- Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose / That well-known name awakens all my woes.
- October 14 2017, Sandeep Moudgal, The Times of India, Rains devastate families, political parties make beeline to apply balm on open wounds
- The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.
- Calamity, trouble.
- A curse; a malediction.
- Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
woe (comparative more woe, superlative most woe)
- (obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
- 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng synne
- hys clerk was wo to do þat dede
- Wo was the knight and sorroufully he syketh.
- 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng synne
Interjection
woe
- (archaic) An exclamation of grief.
Translations
Anagrams
- owe
Limburgish
Adverb
woe
- where
Alternative forms
- boe (Maastrichtian)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *wuo, from Proto-Germanic *hw?.
Adverb
woe
- (eastern) Alternative form of hoe
Middle English
Pronoun
woe
- Alternative form of we (“we”)
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privation
English
Etymology
From Old French privacion, from Latin pr?v?ti?; compare French privation. See private.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /p?a??ve???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
privation (countable and uncountable, plural privations)
- (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
- The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
- The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
- (obsolete) Degradation or suspension from an office.
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “privation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
French
Etymology
From Latin pr?v?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i.va.sj??/
Noun
privation f (plural privations)
- deprivation
- shortage, deficiency
- defect
Related terms
- priver
Further reading
- “privation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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