See woe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.",
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"ref": "1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:",
"text": "Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose / That well-known name awakens all my woes.",
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"ref": "1808, [Hannah More], chapter VI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. […], volume I, London: […] [Strahan and Preston] for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, pages 68–69:",
"text": "But if there was a competition between a ſick family and a new broach, the broach was ſure to carry the day. This would not have been the caſe, had they been habituated to viſit themſelves the abodes of penury and woe.",
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"ref": "October 14 2017, Sandeep Moudgal, The Times of India, Rains devastate families, political parties make beeline to apply balm on open wounds",
"text": "The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections."
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{
"word": "sorrow"
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{
"word": "misery"
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"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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],
"word": "ܘܵܝܵܐ"
},
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"roman": "beda",
"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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],
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"roman": "zločestie",
"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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],
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"word": "悲痛"
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"word": "悲恸"
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"_dis1": "80 20 0",
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],
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],
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"_dis1": "80 20 0",
"code": "de",
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"_dis1": "80 20 0",
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],
"word": "יגון"
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"_dis1": "80 20 0",
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"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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],
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"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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"_dis1": "80 20 0",
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"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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"_dis1": "80 20 0",
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"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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"word": "patiràs"
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"_dis1": "80 20 0",
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"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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"ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:",
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"ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:",
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"tags": [
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "exclamation of grief",
"word": "𐍅𐌰𐌹"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.