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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Misery \Mi"ser*y\, n.; pl {Miseries}. [OE. miserie, L. miseria
fr miser wretched: cf F. mis[`e]re, OF also miserie.]
1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind;
wretchedness; distress; woe. --Chaucer.
Destruction and misery are in their ways. --Rom.
iii. 16.
2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We
scarcely think our miseries our foes. --Shak.
3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.]
Syn: Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish;
distress; calamity; misfortune.
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