Woe
n.
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Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,
Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
[They] weep each other's woe.
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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?
O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life].
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day,
That costs thy life, my gallant gray!
Phrases & Compounds
- Woe worth
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Woe be to. See Worth, v. i.
Woe
a.
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Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.]
His clerk was woe to do that deed.
Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
And looking up he waxed wondrous woe.