Elend
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See also: elend
German
Etymology
From elend.
Pronunciation
Noun
Elend n (strong, genitive Elends, no plural)
- misery
- 1844, Karl Marx, “Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie – Einleitung [A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – Introduction]”, in Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher [German-French Annals], Paris, translation of original in German:
- Das religiöse Elend ist in einem der Ausdruck des wirklichen Elendes und in einem die Protestation gegen das wirkliche Elend.
- Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
- 1927, Adolf Halfeld, Amerika und der Amerikanismus. Kritische Betrachtungen eines Deutschen und Europäers, Jena: Eugen Diederichs, pages 206–207:
- Das Elend der Universitäten beginnt, wie wir sahen, schon bei den Grundschulen und High Schools.
- The misery of the universities begins, as we have seen, already in the primary schools and high schools.
Declension
Declension of Elend
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Elend” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Elend” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Elend” in Duden online
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