About The Word Woe
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Woe
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What's The Definition Of Woe?
[n] intense mournfulness
[n] misery resulting from affliction Synonyms | Synonyms for Woe: suffering | woefulness Related Terms | Find terms related to Woe: See Also | misery | mournfulness | ruthfulness | sorrowfulness | wretchedness Woe In Webster's Dictionary \Woe\, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin to D.
wee, OS. & OHG. w[=e], G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve,
Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. ?. [root]128. Cf. {Wail}.]
[Formerly written also {wo}.]
1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad
instrument of all our woe, she took. --Milton.
[They] weep each other's woe. --Pope.
2. 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?
--South.
Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of
sorrow. `` Woe is me! for I am undone.'' --Isa. vi. 5.
O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. --Chaucer.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! --Isa.
xlv. 9.
{Woe worth}, Woe be to. See {Worth}, v. i.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs
thy life, my gallant gray! --Sir W.
Scott.
\Woe\, a. Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.] His clerk was woe to do that deed. --Robert of Brunne. Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. --Chaucer. And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. --Spenser. |
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