Wretch vs Wretchedness - What's the difference?
wretch | wretchedness |
An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
*{{quote-book
, year=1742
, author=Henry Fielding
, title=Joseph Andrews
, chapter=12
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, year=1789
, author=Watkin Tench
, title=The Expedition to Botany Bay
, chapter=14
An unpleasant, annoying person.
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, year=1740
, author=Samuel Richardson
, title=Pamela
, chapter=71
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, year=1823
, author=Walter Scott
, title=Saint Ronan's Well
, chapter=32
(archaic) An exile. (rfex)
An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 3
A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish.
As nouns the difference between wretch and wretchedness
is that wretch is an unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person while wretchedness is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.wretch
English
Noun
(es)citation, passage=The poor wretch , who lay motionless a long time, just began to recover his senses as a stage-coach came by.}}
citation, passage=The four unhappy wretches labouring under sentence of banishment were freed from their fetters, to rejoin their former society; and three days given as holidays to every convict in the colony.}}
citation, passage=Swear to me but, thou bold wretch ! said she, swear to me, that Pamela Andrews is really and truly thy lawful wife, without sham, without deceit, without double-meaning; and I know what I have to say!}}
citation, passage=I asked that selfish wretch , Winterblossom, to walk down with me to view her distress, and the heartless beast told me he was afraid of infection!}}
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.