English Dictionary: Woe | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woe \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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woe \Woe\, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[be], interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. & OHG. w[emac], 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. [bd] Woe is me! for I am undone.[b8] --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. |