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Definition of Miseries
1. misery [n] - See also: misery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miseries
Literary usage of Miseries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"DISCONTENTS, cares, crosses, miseries, or whatsoever it is, that shall cause ...
C., reckon afflictions, miseries, even all these contentions, and vexations ..."
2. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"miseries of the Plague. AJ, Oct. 22.—Letters from Spain give an Account of the
desperate Condition of several Ships from Marseilles, which have come upon ..."
3. The Tudor Drama: A History of English National Drama to the Retirement of by Tucker Brooke (1911)
"The title-page of the first quarto tells us that the "miseries" was even then (1607)
being performed by the King's Men; and the imaginative liberties taken ..."
4. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"A NARRATIVE OF YE miseries OF NEW ENGLAND BY REASON OF AN ARBITRARY GOVERNMT
ERECTED. THERE. That a Colony so Considerable as New England is, ..."
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