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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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wretchedness
English
Etymology
wretched +? -ness
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???t??dn?s/
- Hyphenation: wretch?ed?ness
Noun
wretchedness (usually uncountable, plural wretchednesses)
- An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 3
- She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 3
- A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.
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