Woe vs Soe - What's the difference?
woe | soe |
grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A curse; a malediction.
* South
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
* Robert of Brunne
* Chaucer
* Spenser
(obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 55:
As nouns the difference between woe and soe
is that woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity while soe is .As an adjective woe
is (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.woe
English
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 .
Anagrams
*soe
English
Noun
(en noun)- " no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe -fuls"