woe definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: misery resulting from affliction [syn: suffering, woe] 2: intense mournfulness [syn: woe, woefulness] Merriam Webster's I. interjection Etymology: Middle English wa ... from Old English w?; akin to Old Norse vei, interjection, woe, Latin vae Date: before 12th century used to express grief ... calamities, troubles. 3 joc. problems (told me a tale of woe). Phrases and idioms: woe betide there will be unfortunate consequences for (woe betide ...
Woe worth definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Woe Woe, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin ... 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 ...
Woe-begone definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Woe-begone Woe"-be*gone`, a. [OE. wo begon. See Woe, and Begone, p. p.] Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. --Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. --Fairfax. Soule' ...
... HO Webster's 1913 Dictionary Wo Wo, n. & a. See Woe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Woe Woe, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin ... 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 ...
... and disaster, he is able to reply that, having pronounced "woe" upon himself in the year that King Uzziah died, he had the authority to pronounce woe upon them (6:5). Plainly Isaiah tells them that Judah ... the prophet indulges in a series of six woes: (1) Woe to drunken, scoffing politicians (Isa 28). This is one of ... discipline His people beyond their deserts (28:23-29). (2) Woe to formalists in religion (Isa 29:1-14). Isaiah's second woe is pronounced upon Ariel, the altar-hearth of God, i ... to a true knowledge of Himself (Isa 29:14). (3) Woe to those who hide their plans from God (Isa ...
... of the Talmudic rabbin. In Pesachim 57a it is said, "Woe's me on account of the house of Boothus, woe's me on account of their spears; woe's me on account of the house of Hanun (Annas), woe's me on account of their serpent brood; woe's me on account of the house of Kathros, woe's me on account of their pen; woe's ...
... vζla, v?la to wail; akin to Old Norse vei woe more at woe Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to express sorrow audibly ... adj. poet. wailingly adv. Etymology: ME f. ON, rel. to WOE Webster's 1913 Dictionary Wail Wail, v. t. [Cf. Icel ... fr. Icel. v[ae]la; cf. Icel. v[ae], vei, woe, and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei, woe. Cf. Woe.] To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to ...
... verb to happen to ; befall used chiefly in the phrase woe betide < woe betide our enemies > Oxford Reference Dictionary v. (only in infin. and 3rd sing. subj.) 1 tr. happen to (woe betide him). 2 intr. happen (whate'er may betide). Etymology ... Tide.] To happen to; to befall; to come to; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few ? --Milton. Webster ... betide of me ?'' Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If you say woe betide anyone who does a particular thing, you mean that ... unpleasant will happen to them if they do it. (FORMAL) Woe betide anyone who got in his way. PHRASE: PHR ...
... 2005) adj 1: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du ... s also woful adjective Date: 14th century 1. full of woe ; grievous < woeful prophecies > 2. involving or bringing woe 3. lamentably bad or serious ; deplorable < woeful ignorance > woefully adverb ... Derivatives: woefully adv. woefulness n. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Woeful Woe"ful, Woful Wo"ful, a. 1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad ... woeful event; woeful want. O woeful day! O day of woe! --Philips. 3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. What woeful stuff ...
... Etymology: Middle English welaway, from Old English weil?wei, literally, woe! lo! woe!, alteration of w?l?w?, from w? woe + l? lo + w? woe more at woe Date: before 12th century archaic used to express sorrow or ...
... way of those that seek my bane Philip Sidney > d. woe 2. a source of harm or ruin ; curse < national frontiers ... esp. the bane of one's life). 2 poet. ruin; woe. 3 archaic (except in comb.) poison (ratsbane). Derivatives: baneful adj ... Milton. 3. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. --Herbert. 4. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot ... taking of life, the worst, toxin, undoing, venom, vexation, virus, woe, wrong
... before 12th century archaic become usually used in the phrase woe worth II. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weorth ... to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in ... and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases. I counsel ...
... a display of grief or sadness Synonyms: sorrow, grief, anguish, woe, regret mean distress of mind. sorrow implies a sense of ... the anguish felt by the parents of the kidnapped child >. woe is deep or inconsolable grief or misery < cries of woe echoed throughout the bombed city >. regret implies pain caused by ... ululation, unhappiness, wailing, waters of bitterness, weep over, weight, wistfulness, woe, wretchedness