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English
Etymology
From Middle English wofare, equivalent to woe + fare.
Noun
woefare (uncountable)
- Discontentment; sorrow; unhappiness
- Synonyms: evilfare, illfare, misery; see also Thesaurus:sadness
- Synonym: welfare
1884, Henry Theophilus Finck, Wagner Handbook for the Festival Concerts Given in 1884:[...] alone thy food was laughing delight, for feeling's blind and fathomless bliss thy lips were deep in the drink of love — while mine winced at the gall mixed with the woefare of gods? — Thy fooling thought freely then follow ; aloof thou hast left me far.
1886, Lady Isabel Burton, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights:Quoth Abd al-Rahman, "I fear strangerhood for him, inasmuch as wayfare is the worst of woefare;" but she said, "There is no harm in strangerhood for him when it leadeth to gaining good; [...]