wretchedness
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wretchedness (uncountable)
- An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 3
- She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 3
- A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.
