woe - What does it mean?

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(en-noun)

grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

* Milton

Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.

* Alexander Pope

[They] weep each other's woe .

A curse; a malediction.

* South

Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

* in weal or woe * woeful * woe is me

(en-adj)

(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful

* Robert of Brunne

His clerk was woe to do that deed.

* Chaucer

Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.

* Spenser

And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .