woefulness

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O Sempronio, have pity on my distress;      For of all creatures I am the woefullest.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

“Ay me!” said I. “It should be the strangest and woefullest tale ever writ by woman.”

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

Proudly, in eye of the world, the Titanic sailed Westward from the Irish coast; then for a while disappeared; only to reappear in a brief scene of woefullest tragedy round which the world stayed mute.

From Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder by Bullock, Shan F.

O! if you raise this house against this house, It will the woefullest division prove That ever fell upon this cursed earth.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William

Now hark to the poor, curst wretch, 'tis the woefullest dog!" exclaimed the Colonel feelingly, "won't drink and no petticoats!

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery