Wo

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WO

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Grief; sorrow; misery; a heavy calamity.

One who is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter. Revelations 9.

They weep each others wo.

A curse.

Can there be a wo or curse in all the stores of vengeance, equal to the malignity of such a practice?

Wo is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow.

Wo is me; for I am undone. Isaiah 6.

This is properly the Saxon dative, wo is to me.

Wo worth the day. This is also the dative; wo be to the day.

Wo is a noun, and if used as an adjective, it is improperly used. Wo to you that are rich. Wo to that man, by whom the offense cometh; that is, misery, calamity, be or will be to him.