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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
But Idiomatic and Syntactic English dictionary says: (pl.) painful happenings; great misfortunes, as the miseries of mankind.
Depending on context, could 'miseries' mean either a wretched state of something or a thing causing this?
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The Miseries Of sth
According to Oxford Dictionary of English,
usually miseries [count noun] A cause or source of great distress or discomfort.
‘the miseries of war’But Idiomatic and Syntactic English dictionary says: (pl.) painful happenings; great misfortunes, as the miseries of mankind.
Depending on context, could 'miseries' mean either a wretched state of something or a thing causing this?
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anonymous Depending on context, could 'miseries' mean either a wretched state of something or a thing causing this? Yes. You have learned a valuable lesson about dictionaries.
- anonymous Depending on context, could 'miseries' mean either a wretched state of something or a thing causing this?
- Yes.
- You have learned a valuable lesson about dictionaries.
- You have to look at several.
- The Oxford English Dictionary puts both those definitions in the same entry: " 2.
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anonymous Depending on context, could 'miseries' mean either a wretched state of something or a thing causing this?
Yes. You have learned a valuable lesson about dictionaries. You have to look at several. The Oxford English Dictionary puts both those definitions in the same entry:
" 2. As a count noun: a distressing condition, state, or circums
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