wretchedness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WRETCHEDNESS, noun 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.
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