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miserability en · NOUN

Etymology

From miserable + -ability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) miserableness
    • I durst declare the myserabilitie / Of diners curtis,—war nocht my tyme bene schort,— / The dreidfull cheange, vaine glore, and vilitie, / The painfull plesour, as Poetis doith reporte, / Sum tyme in hope, sum tyme in disconforte; / And how sum men dois spend thair ȝouthed haill / In court, syne endis in the hospytaill:[…] 1530, David Lyndsay, The Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo: