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woe⋅be⋅gone

[woh-bi-gawn, -gon]
–adjective

1. showing or indicating suffering: He always had a woebegone look on his face. Troubled, forlorn, gloomy. 


why is charles dickens the only person to ever use the word woebegone?
i have never actually heard someone use this word in conversation. it just doesn’t happen.

thank you, apples to apples, for calling this word to our attention.