woefare

alternative wofare

1. uncountableDiscontentment; sorrow; unhappiness.

   Quoth Abd al-Rahman, "I fear strangerhood for him, inasmuch as wayfare is the worst of woefare;" but she said, "There is no harm in strangerhood for him when it leadeth to gaining good; [...]

   1886, Lady Isabel Burton, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights

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   [...] alone thy food was laughing delight, for feeling's blind and fathomless bliss thy lips were deep in the drink of love — while mine winced at the gall mixed with the woefare of gods? — Thy fooling thought freely then follow ; aloof thou hast left me far.

   1884, Henry Theophilus Finck, Wagner Handbook for the Festival Concerts Given in 1884

   Synonyms: evilfare, illfare, misery, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, crestfallenness