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deploredness

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English

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Etymology

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From deplored +‎ -ness.

Noun

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deploredness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being deplored or deplorable.
    • 1647, Joseph Hall, An Holy Rapture; or, A Pathetical Meditation of the Love of Christ:
      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.