Obs. Also 6 ve. [L. væ alas!] A denunciation or threatening of woe.
1559. Abp. Parker, Corr. (Parker Soc.), 79. We should … deserve the wrathful væ and vengeance of God.
1584. Lodge, Alarm agst. Usurers, F iiij. The Lord shal place you among the goates, and pronounce his Ve against you.
1602. W. Watson, Quodl. Relig. & State, 9. With how many væes and woes to you Scribes and Pharisees did he come vpon them?
a. 1636. Westcote, View Devonsh. (1845), 61. There was a væ or woe pronounced against them in these words,—‘Woe unto you Piltonians, that make cloth without wool.’
