Wretchedness
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Wretchedness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
WRETCHEDNESS, n.
1. Extreme misery or unhappiness, either from want or sorrow; as the wretchedness of poor mendicants.
We have, with the feeling, most the very memory of such wretchedness as our forefathers endured--
The prodigal brought nothing to his father but his rags and wretchedness.
2. Meanness; despicableness; as the wretchedness of a performance.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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