Noun

(uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.

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(uncountable, chiefly, US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of Welfare assistance ).

Noun

(en noun)

Discontentment; sorrow; unhappiness

*1884 , Henry Theophilus Finck, Wagner Handbook for the Festival Concerts Given in 1884 :

[...] alone thy food was laughing delight, for feeling's blind and fathomless bliss thy lips were deep in the drink of love — while mine winced at the gall mixed with the woefare of gods? — Thy fooling thought freely then follow ; aloof thou hast left me far.

*1886 , Lady Isabel Burton, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights :

Quoth Abd al-Rahman, "I fear strangerhood for him, inasmuch as wayfare is the worst of woefare ;" but she said, "There is no harm in strangerhood for him when it leadeth to gaining good; [...]