Definition of "vae" []

• See voe. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Barnstaple, was notorious rather than celebrated for the making of cotton linings, so cheap and coarse a stuff that a popular "vae" or "woe" was locally pronounced against them."
• "Of course I am grateful for all the help we received marshall plan and all the other help, but I would like to say that the "vae victis" still counts today."
• "So in many ways the results of the 1939-45 was not ‘vae victis’ but woe to all, and particularly woe to those the Nazi regime has identified as its particular enemies, the Jews, the Poles, the Russians and others who were consigned to genocidal murder and woe to any one or any nation that fell under their power from Greece to Norway, from France to Estonia."