- a variation of woeful.
woful
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This was a woful grievance to the bulk of the tenants, especially to elderly or infirm persons, or others remote from the county town.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
Oh, woful welcome! woful day, That never brings a bright to-morrow!
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
With these woful complaints agree the recorded facts of his life.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
In his proem to the first book he invokes one of the furies to aid him in his task: “Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte Thise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!”
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
Her white face, which grew more deathly white each day, and her woful eyes, which grew ever more despairing in their shadowy rings, were sure indexes of what she was passing through.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
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