Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad
instrument of all our woe, she took. --Milton.
[They] weep each other's woe. --Pope.
2. A curse; a malediction.
Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of
vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
--South.
Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of
sorrow. `` Woe is me! for I am undone.'' --Isa. vi. 5.
O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. --Chaucer.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! --Isa.
xlv. 9.
{Woe worth}, Woe be to. See {Worth}, v. i.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs
thy life, my gallant gray! --Sir W.
Scott.
His clerk was woe to do that deed. --Robert of
Brunne.
Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
--Chaucer.
And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. --Spenser.