What does "bale" mean?
Bale: Misery; Let now your bliss be turned into bale. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. [Now chiefly poetic]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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