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woefully

[woh-fuh-lee] / ˈwoʊ fə li /


ADVERB
sorely
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Do, then, in turn, tell me, If joy Thy heart as well as voice employ Why dost thou now most Sable, shine In plumage woefuller far than mine?

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by De la Mare, Walter

Never heard I of fighting a night-tide 'Neath the vault of the heavens was harder than that, Nor yet on the sea-streams of woefuller wight.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

No monster woefuller than they, and crueller is none Of all God's plagues and curses dread from Stygian waters sent.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William




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