distress
noun
great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
distressfulness
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a word derived from
distress.
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a word derived from
distressful.
Example Sentences
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Did he pass you so fleet, —Where, yon at the cross, the three hundred roads meet— With distressfulness panting, and wailing with cold?
From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Verhaeren, Emile
However, in spite of the distressfulness of the foregoing possibilities, it is time that I returned to my hero.
From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.
