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Miser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [Latin miser miserable.] A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted.

2. A wretch; a mean fellow.

3. An extremely covetous person; a sordid wretch; a niggard; one who in wealth makes himself miserable by the fear of poverty. [This is the only sense in which it is now used.]

4. No silver saints by dying misers given.

Miser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.

2. A despicable person; a wretch.

3. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.

4. A kind of large earth auger.

Miserabale [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [Latin miser, miserabilis.]

2. Very unhappy from grief, pain, calamity, poverty, apprehension of evil, or other cause. It however expresses somewhat less than wretched.

3. What hopes delude thee, miserable man?

4. Very poor; worthless.

5. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job 16:1 .

6. Causing unhappiness or misery.

7. What's more miserable than discontent?

8. Very poor or mean; as a miserable hut; miserable clothing.

9. Very poor or barren; as a miserable soil.

10. Very low or despicable; as a miserable person.

Miserable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Very unhappy; wretched.

2. Causing unhappiness or misery.

3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner.

4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.

Miserable [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A miserable person.

Miserableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

State of misery; poorness.

Miserableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being miserable.

Miserably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Unhappily; calamitously.

2. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death.

3. Very poorly or meanly; wretchedly. They were miserably entertained.

4. In misery or unhappiness.

Miserably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.

Miseration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Commiseration.

Miserere [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.

2. A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.

3. A small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia.

4. Same as Ileus.

Misericorde [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Compassion; pity; mercy.

2. Same as Misericordia, 2.

Misericordia [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An amercement.

2. A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or "mercy" stroke to a fallen adversary.

3. An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.

Miseries [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Misery

Miserly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Very covetous; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious.

Miserly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

Misery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [Latin miseria.]

2. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind. A man suffers misery from the gout, or from great afflictions, distress, calamity, and other evils. misery expresses somewhat less than wretchedness.

3. Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart, as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field.

4. Calamity; misfortune; natural evils which are the cause of misery

5. And mourn the miseries of human life.

6. Covetousness. [Not used.]

Misery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.

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Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Judges 10:16

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

Judges 11:35

And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.

As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”

Job 3:20

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Job 7:3

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

Job 11:16

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

Job 16:2

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Job 20:22

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Proverbs 31:7

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 8:6

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

Lamentations 3:19

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Matthew 15:22

And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”

Matthew 21:41

They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

Matthew 24:19

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Mark 13:17

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Luke 21:23

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

Romans 3:16

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

ruin and misery lie in their wake,

1 Corinthians 15:19

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.