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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

deploredness en · NOUN

Etymology

From deplored + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being deplored or deplorable.
    • 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. 1647, Joseph Hall, An Holy Rapture; or, A Pathetical Meditation of the Love of Christ: