woefareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 wofare, equivalent to woe +‎ fare.

名詞

woefare (uncountable)

1. Discontentment; sorrow; unhappiness.

   Synonyms: evilfare, illfare, misery; see also Thesaurus:sadness

   Synonym: welfare

   • 1884, Henry Theophilus Finck, Wagner Handbook for the Festival Concerts Given in 1884:

     [...] alone thy food was laughing delight, for feeling's blind and fathomless bliss thy lips were deep in the drink of love — while mine winced at the gall mixed with the woefare of gods? — Thy fooling thought freely then follow ; aloof thou hast left me far.

   • 1886, Lady Isabel Burton, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights:

     Quoth Abd al-Rahman, "I fear strangerhood for him, inasmuch as wayfare is the worst of woefare;" but she said, "There is no harm in strangerhood for him when it leadeth to gaining good; [...]