deploredness

noun

deploredness

noun

Etymology From deplored + -ness.

1

The state of being deplored or deplorable.

  • But for thee, O blessed Jesu, so ardent was thy love to us, that it was not in the power of our extreme misery to abate it; yea, so as that the deploredness of our condition did but heighten that holy flame.1647, Joseph Hall, An Holy Rapture; or, A Pathetical Meditation of the Love of Christ:

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