Dictionary entry

Woe-begone

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Woe″–be‐gone′ (?), a. [OE. wo begon. See Woe, and Begone, p. p.] Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer.

So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.