Deploredness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being deplored or deplorable. uncountable

    "But for thee, O blessed Jesu, so ardent was thy love to us, that it was not in the power of our extreme misery to abate it; yea, so as that the deploredness of our condition did but heighten that holy flame."

Example

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"But for thee, O blessed Jesu, so ardent was thy love to us, that it was not in the power of our extreme misery to abate it; yea, so as that the deploredness of our condition did but heighten that holy flame."

Etymology

From deplored + -ness.

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