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Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of woe Entry 1 of 2. However, woe betide any shepherd who thought that his past status would be forgotten. It is doomed to wander the world - oh, woe is me! After a point, the tale of woe becomes repetitive. It was to serve as a therapeutic remedy for the woes he and his society were suffering.
Criticism encompasses operating and administrative flaws, financial woes and so on but the overall benefits of the railways are not questioned. Political intrusion compounded the military's woes. Moreover, just as recipients exhibit an orientation toward making sure that the prosperity of others is properly recognized, so, too, they display a concern for others' woes. The language is straightforward and colloquial; the lectures are filled with references to local beliefs, popular hadiths and the concrete woes of the rural poor, such as dowry and security.
A woe -begone figure unwilling or unable to earn an ordinary livelihood is picking up unconsidered trifles from dustbins in the street.
From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. Each one is a tragic and pitiful tale of woe. If world trade slackens in —and there is some indication that it will— woe betide us. But behind that air of lassitude there is always the very keenest intellect, and woe betide anybody who interrupts him.
To us in ancient story wonders great are told Of heroes rich in glory and of adventures bold, Of feast and joyous living, of wailing and of woe , Of gallant warriors striving may ye now many marvels know. Woe is me, my slave-girls bear strange emblems in a strange city. More woe : because transparency is set by the top left pixel, the pretend icon can look very spotty on some backgrounds. He had sweetcorn related woe in his last week. Dean returned home dreading what new tales of woe Fred O'Connor might have discovered in his absence.
The startling saying, " Blessed are ye poor," followed by the woe pronounced upon the rich, might seem like a condemnation of the very principle of property; and when the Christian Church had come to be organized as a society containing rich and poor, the heart of the saying was felt to be more truly and clearly expressed in the words, " Blessed are the poor in spirit.
They became regents to their young children; and the experience of all medieval minorities reiterates the lesson - woe to the land where the king is a child and the regent a woman. Revelations concerning the last things and the future lot, whether bliss or woe , of human souls, promises for true believers, threatenings for misbelievers, his firm confidence as to the future triumph of the good - such are the themes continually dwelt on with endless variations.
As phenomena are good or evil, produce pleasure or pain, cause weal or woe , a distinction in the character of these agencies is gradually recognized; the agents of good become gods, those of evil, demons.
The life and death struggle between the church and the empire has now entered on its final stage, and fear and trouble and woe are rife in the hearts of the faithful. Men of good birth nearly always, too, of Celtic blood on one side at least , they leave Iceland young and attach themselves to the kings and earls of the north, living in their courts as their henchmen, sharing their adventures in weal and woe , praising their victories, and hymning their deaths if they did not fall by their sides - men of quick passion, unhappy in their loves, jealous of rival poets and of their own fame, ever ready to answer criticism with a satire or with a sword-thrust, but clinging through all to their art, in which they attained most marvellous skill.
A tragedy, Anne Boleyn, followed in ; and Milman also wrote "When our heads are bowed with woe ," and other hymns; an admirable version of the Sanskrit episode of Nala and Damayanti; and translations of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchae of Euripides.
It is sometimes proposed to view the canonical prophets as simple preachers of righteousness; their predictions of woe , we are told, are conditional, and tell what Israel must suffer if it does not repent. Annoyed by Whitworth's imperturbable demeanour, he ended with these words: "You must respect treaties, then: woe to those who do not respect treaties.
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