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n. - Intense mournfulness.

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Usage examples (26)
  • Adjective : a woeful situation. ,woeful melodies. ,a woeful collection of paintings
  • Finally, Sutton pressed the woefulness down and went on.
  • Or is it the lamenting Elegiac, which in a kind heart would move rather pity than blame, who bewails with the great philosopher Heraclitus the weakness of mankind, and the...
  • But its very woefulness made it the more desirable.
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