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ˈmiserableness
[-ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being miserable; wretchedness, miserable unhappiness.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. xiii. (1614) 74 He found a miserable death, where others with miserablenesse seeke a blessed life. 1701Collier M. Anton. (1726) 178 Does any natural defect force you upon grumbling, miserableness, or laying your faults upon your constitution. 1830Coleridge Lett. (1895) 751 During my long chain of bodily miserablenesses. 1890Spectator 5 July, ‘My God! what a genius I had when I wrote that book’, said Swift, half-mad and wholly miserable... Wordsworth, without any miserableness or despair, was..of the same opinion.
†2. Miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess. Obs.
1522Skelton Why nat to Court 1029 Suche gredynesse, Suche nedynesse, Myserablenesse, With wretchydnesse. 1641Quarles Enchyr. ii. xvii, It is lesse reproach, by miserablenesse, to preserve the popular love, than by liberality to deserve the private thanks. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life ii. iv. §3 Wks. 1718 I. 289 His Prosperity either shrivels him into Miserableness, or melts him into Luxury. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Miserableness, Covetousness, Niggardliness, Stinginess.
3. Wretched or mean character or condition.
1633Bp. Morton Disch. 5 Imputations 199 To the end that you may see the miserablenesse of your Cause, which must be supported by such Frauds..as his have beene. |