Woe \Woe\, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. & OHG. w[=e], G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve, Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. ?. [root]128. Cf. {Wail}.] [Formerly written also {wo}.] 1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. --Milton.
[They] weep each other's woe. --Pope.
2. A curse; a malediction.
Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice? --South.
Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. `` Woe is me! for I am undone.'' --Isa. vi. 5.
O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. --Chaucer.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! --Isa. xlv. 9.
{Woe worth}, Woe be to. See {Worth}, v. i.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray! --Sir W. Scott.
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A Yale graduate wo said God ordered him to kill his mother, brother and two other people was found innocent by reason of insanity Friday.
When he was suggested as the party's general secretary several months ago, members of Umkhonto wo Sizwo objected to his release from his position with the army.
Thought for Today: "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people wo have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver, American botanist (1864-1943).