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deplore | deploredness |

As a verb deplore

is to bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.

As a noun deploredness is

the state of being deplored or deplorable.

deplore

English

Verb

(deplor)
  • To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
    • I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
    The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.
    I deplore not having listened to your advice.
  • To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
    • I deplore how you treated him at the party.
    Many people deplore the actions of a corrupt government.
  • (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * bewail * condemn

    Related terms

    * deplorable * deploration

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    deploredness

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    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being deplored or deplorable.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • But for thee, O blessed Jesu, so ardent was thy love to us, that it was not in the power of our extreme misery to abate it; yea, so as that the deploredness of our condition did but heighten that holy flame.