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O, interjection expressive of pain, of surprise or of desire, or used to give the speech the character of earnestness: “O, how quick is love!” Ven. 38. “O, pity!” Ven. 38 “O, be not proud,” Ven. 38 “O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,” Ven. 38 “O, what a sight it was,” Ven. 38 “O, what a war of looks,” Ven. 38 “O fairest mover on this mortal round,” Ven. 38 “O, give it me,” Ven. 38 “O, learn to love,” Ven. 38 “O, would thou hadst not,” Ven. 38 “but, O, what banquet wert thou,” Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 Ven. 38 1015 etc. etc. “O me!” Sonn. 148, 1. LLL IV, 3, 165. Mids. III, 2, 282. Merch. I, 2, 24. John I, 220. IV, 3, 9. H4B IV, 4, 111. Cor. I, 6, 76. Rom. I, 1, 179. V, 3, 206. Hml. III, 4, 25. Oth. V, 1, 56. “O me, O me!” Rom. IV, 5, 19. “O me, the gods!” Cor. II, 3, 60.
Substantively: “why should you fall into so deep an O?” Rom. III, 3, 90 (== affliction. The nurse's speech).
Imitative of the voice of a beast: “like a full-acorned boar, a German one, cried O! and mounted,” Cymb. II, 5, 17.
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