Wo definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary WO, n. [G.] 1. Grief; sorrow; misery; a heavy calamity. One ... two woes more hereafter. Revelations 9. They weep each others wo. 2. A curse. Can there be a wo or curse in all the stores of vengeance, equal to the malignity of such a practice? 3. Wo is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. Wo is me; for I am undone. Isaiah 6. This ...
... equivalent to alas. It is a compound of Sax. Wa, wo and la, oh. The original is wa-la, which is ... of our common exclamation, O la, and to this, wa, wo, is added. The true orthography would be wa la wa ... Welaway Wel"a*way, interj. [OE. welaway, walaway, weilawey; wei wo! (Icel. vei) + la lo! (AS. l[=a]) + wei wo!; cf. AS. w[=a] l[=a] w[=a]. See Woe ...
... woefulness] Merriam Webster's I. interjection Etymology: Middle English wa, wo, from Old English w?; akin to Old Norse vei, interjection ... of lament Webster's 1913 Dictionary Woe Woe, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin to D. wee ... L. vae, Gr. ?. [root]128. Cf. Wail.] [Formerly written also wo.] 1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her ...
... i. This verb is now used only in the phrases, wo worth the day, wo worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative mode, and the noun in the dative; wo be to the day. WORTH, n. [G., L. The primary ...
... and Ammenon are equivalent to the Babylonian nouns amelu (Delitzsch Wo lag das Paradies? S 149; Hommel, PSBA, XV, 243 ff ... Zimmern, KAT3, 530 ff); Amempsinos is probably Amelu-Sin (Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies? 149; Hommel, PSBA, XV, 243 ff; Zimmern ... a misreading of the Greek Opartes, is Ubara-Tutu (Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradues? 149; Hommel, PSBA, XV, 243 ff; Zimmern ...
... syn: woebegone, woeful] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Middle English wo begon, from wo, noun + begon, past participle of begon to go about, beset ...
Wobegone definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary WOBEGONE, a. [wo, be, and gone.] Overwhelmed with wo; immersed in grief and sorrow. So wobegone was he with ...
... worth definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Woe Woe, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin to D. wee ... L. vae, Gr. ?. [root]128. Cf. Wail.] [Formerly written also wo.] 1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her ...