Deplorate

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    deplorable obsolete

    "[…] but seeing 'tis now evident and certain that my safety without her destruction, is in a more deplorate estate, I am most grievously affected […]"

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"[…] but seeing 'tis now evident and certain that my safety without her destruction, is in a more deplorate estate, I am most grievously affected […]"

Etymology

First attested in 1544; borrowed from Latin dēplōrātus, perfect passive participle of dēplōrō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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