"Wretch" translation

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"Wretch" translation

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Hi,

I can't find any translation for the word "wretch".
What does it mean?

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You can use a dictionary to look out the meaning and later translate it :-)
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/wretch

WordNet Dictionary
Definition:
[n] someone you feel sorry for
[n] performs some wicked deed
Synonyms:
poor devil
See Also:
miscreant, reprobate, victim
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition:
\Wretch\, n. [OE. wrecche, AS. wrecca, wr[ae]cca, an
exile, a wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly,
an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wr[ae]c an exile, OS.
wrekkio a stranger, OHG. reccheo an exile. See {Wreak}, v.
t.]
1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. ``The wretch
that lies in woe.'' --Shak.

Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch
even then, life's journey just begun? --Cowper.

2. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable
person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.

Note: Wretch is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical
pity or contempt, and sometimes to express tenderness;
as we say, poor thing. ``Poor wretch was never frighted
so.'' --Drayton.
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Post by Guillaume »

Cool another dictionnary link :wink:
Sometimes in so in my translation that I stop thinking!
Of course I should have look for a definition in an english dictionnary :oops:
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