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单词 woe worth the day
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woe worth the day (also time, etc.)
(a) woe worth (a person or thing): may evil or misfortune beset (a person); may a curse be on (a person or thing). Frequently in woe worth the day (also time, etc.). Now archaic and rare.
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c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 384 Wa wurðe þet cheaffeare.
a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 114 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) l. 141 Wa uurþe þe time þat tu boren was.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 3995 Wo worþe onread.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4118 Ȝif i wrong seie any word, wo worþ me euer.
c1440 (?a1400) Sir Perceval (1930) l. 139Wo worthe wykkyde armour!’ Percyuell may say.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 145 Wo worthe this swerde! for by hit I have gotyn my deth.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 748 Allace! That I was maide wa worthe the courssit cas.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) viii. 139 Thou toke her streight from me, that wo worth thee!
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Passion ii. 199 May we not iustly crye wo worth the tyme that euer we synned?
1567 R. Crowley Opening of Wordes Prophet Ioell sig. D.vv Then may we say, Woe worth the day And houre of our first birthe.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. xlviii. 211 Wo worth men conquered, and downe with them still.
1647 R. Herrick Widdowes Teares in Noble Numbers 43 Woe worth the Time, woe worth the day, That reav'd us of thee Tabitha.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 7 Then they all wept again, and cryed out: Oh, Wo worth the day.
1718 A. Ramsay Elegies (ed. 2) 6 Wae worth Death, our Sport's a' lost, Since Maggy's dead.
1798 Descr. Remarkable Vision Thomas Webster 10 For woe worth the time, and woe worth the sorrow.
a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 30 Wae worth ye, sir! it sets ye ill To talk to me in sic a style.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 12 Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant grey!
1816 J. Duff Poems 11 Wae-wirth that whingin' whig, profession.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 244 Woe worth the hour that I beheld thee born.
1916 Washington Post 19 Sept. 6/1 A Boston citizen—woe worth the day!—comes forward with a suggestion for doing away with the human spellbinder.
1937 V. D. Scudder On Journey i. i. 2 I dabbled all my youth.., woe worth the day.
1953 Classical Jrnl. 49 74/1 We have discoveries to make, and if we make them wisely and well a better day will dawn for mankind; if, however, we muff the opportunity, then woe worth mankind.
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