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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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... cartoons of us ... a cluster of them ... "Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit" ... with dogs' heads on all of us ... Hildreth, with the head of a hound dog, long hound-ears flopping, with black jade ear-rings in them ... Penton, a woe-begone little pug.... ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

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... lain next my heart ever since, and every word is burnt into my brain, to stand there against the day of vengeance. But I have never told their full tale of shame and woe to ...

— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith

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... with it! You fairly scream as you catch her up. But she is not hurt,—only a cry of fright, and a little sprain of that fairy ankle; and as she brushes away the tears and those flaxen curls, and breaks into a merry laugh,—half at your woe-worn face, and half in vexation at herself,—and leans her hand (such a hand!) upon your shoulder, to limp away into the shade, you dream your first dream ...

— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell

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... youth looked at them the black weight of his woe returned to him. He felt that he was regarding a procession of chosen beings. The separation was as great to him as if they had marched with weapons of flame and banners of sunlight. He could never be like them. He could have wept in ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

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... became a moral sleuth, and woe betide an applicant for rooms, and occasional board, who could not produce unimpeachable references, and point to an unsullied record in ...

— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin

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