misery

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Mi"ser*y   (?), n.;
pl. Miseries (#). [OE. miserie, L. miseria, fr. miser
wretched: cf. F. misère, OF. also, miserie.]

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Chaucer.
 
Destruction
and misery are in their
ways.
 Rom. iii. 16.
2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
 
When we our
betters see bearing our woes,
 We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
 Shak.
3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.]
 Syn. -- Wretchedness;
torture; agony; torment; anguish; distress; calamity; misfortune.

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