noun
adjective
definition
Woeful; sorrowful
Examples of woe in a Sentence
He related his tale of woe while enjoying the never-ending pleasure of seeing the woman he loved in various stages of nakedness.
Woe unto the man who does not continue in the ship !
Personal identity may be absorbed, as in the transmigration of souls, or it may even be denied, while the good or bad result of one life is held to determine the weal or woe of another.
Evening shoes are the uncomfortable woe of many women.
I shall never forget the ripple of alternating joy and woe that ran through that beautiful little play, or the wonderful child who acted it.
Still shrouded in clouds of woe I went to the count.
The foreigners accused, in most of the tales of woe I have heard, are either Chinese or Jews.
Otherwise he'll woe the day he was created and moan whenever you talk to him.
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It's one thing to tell a creatively inspired ghost story, but it's another thing when the tale of woe is real; it has the capability of sending shivers down even the most stoic of spines.
The castle was taken, but the second James died at the age of thirty, leaving a child to succeed him in his heritage of woe.
The Buddha believed he had a way of Truth, which if an elect disciple possessed he might say of himself, "Hell is destroyed for me, and rebirth as an animal, or a ghost, or in any place of woe.
Woe betide those who did pick it, for ill luck would follow, troubling the whole house.
But come whatever may, come weal or woe I love thee, bless thee where so e'er thou go!
We greet the Canadian working class and people with whom for thirty years and more we have shared weal and woe.
Nobody is bigger than the club however and his latest injury woe meant he lasted just 22 minutes.
The Saviour answered and said unto him, Woe ye blind, who see not.
But come whatever may, come weal or woe I love thee, bless thee where so e'er thou go !
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The doctrine thus afforded an explanation, quite complete to those who believed it, of the apparent anomalies and wrongs in the distribution here of happiness or woe.
Woe is me, my slave-girls bear strange emblems in a strange city.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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."
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.
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 1826; 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.
Through the streets of Lichfield, on market day, he walked barefoot, crying, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield."
For crying out "Woe unto thee, 0 land, when thy king is a child," he was imprisoned by the House of Commons, but he was soon released and went into exile.
Brennus at once threw his heavy sword into the scale; and when asked the meaning of the act, replied that it meant Vae victis (" woe to the conquered").
They are carried into battle to assist the tribe, are regularly anointed, fondled and invoked; for it is believed that the souls present in them are powerful to work weal and woe to friend and enemy respectively.
The last word is woe for Edom.