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Definition of Woe
Woe

Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

A curse; a malediction.

Woeful; sorrowful.

Related Definitions:
Calamity, Curse, Grief, Heavy, Malediction, Misery, Sorrow, Sorrowful, Woeful


Woe Quotations

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle

Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope

Woe Translations

woe in Dutch is ach, wee
woe in Finnish is voi
woe in German is wehe, Leid
woe in Latin is vae
woe in Spanish is penas
woe in Swedish is lidande

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