WRETCHEDNESS, n.
1. Extreme misery or unhappiness, either from want or sorrow as the wretchedness of poor mendicants.
We have, with the feeling, most the very memory of such wretchedness as our forefathers endured--
The prodigal brought nothing to his father but his rags and wretchedness.
2. Meanness despicableness as the wretchedness of a performance.
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