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noun

Woe n. (Formerly written also wo)

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."

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?" Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. " Woe is me! for I am undone." "O! woe were us alive (i.e., in life)." "Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!"

Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, v. i. "Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!"

adjective

Woe adj. 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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Woe" Quotes from Famous Books

... his face buried in his hands, apparently asleep. I thought I would crawl slyly up to him, and spring suddenly on him, and frighten him. I did so, but Jim was not asleep at all, but lifted up his head with such a look of unutterable woe that I was frightened myself, and said: 'Why, Jim, what is the matter?' Jim cried out: 'O, my boys! my boys! ...

— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

... now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee!— And thy dark sin!—oh! I could drink the cup If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, ...

— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... has come to that fair girl, woe to the man or woman who has harmed her, that is all ...

— A Successful Shadow - A Detective's Successful Quest • Harlan Page Halsey

... some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know, That never feels ...

— Familiar Quotations • Various

... experience would show Just how (by Allah's grace) To make this world of sin and woe Into a better place; And, though we failed to cure at sight All ills that want allaying, At least (between the Acts) we ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920 • Various

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