Woe vs Remorse - What's the difference?
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grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A curse; a malediction.
* South
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
* Robert of Brunne
* Chaucer
* Spenser
A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
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* 1897 , ,"
(obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.
* 1597 , , King John , act 4, sc. 3,
Woe is a related term of remorse.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between woe and remorse
is that woe is (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful while remorse is (obsolete) sorrow; pity; compassion.As nouns the difference between woe and remorse
is that woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity while remorse is a feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.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
*remorse
English
(wikipedia remorse)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
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- Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.
- This is the bloodiest shame,
- The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
- That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
- Presented to the tears of soft remorse .
