miserability

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English

Etymology

From miserable +‎ -ability.

Noun

miserability (uncountable)

  1. miserableness
    • 1530, David Lyndsay, The Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo:
      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: []