Awfulness vs Woe - What's the difference?
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The state of being awful
The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place .
The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence.
grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A curse; a malediction.
* South
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
* Robert of Brunne
* Chaucer
* Spenser
Awfulness is a related term of woe.
As nouns the difference between awfulness and woe
is that awfulness is the state of being awful while woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.As an adjective woe is
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.awfulness
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Noun
(-)woe
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Noun
(en noun)- Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.
- [They] weep each other's woe .
- Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
Derived terms
* in weal or woe * woeful * woe is meAdjective
(en adjective)- His clerk was woe to do that deed.
- Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
- And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .