Usage Note
Miséres is a French plural form occasionally found in Italian literary and historical texts as a gallicism, referring to conditions of poverty or wretchedness. In standard Italian the equivalent is miserie (f pl). Its appearance in Italian prose signals a period influence or a deliberate stylistic choice evoking French culture.
Examples
"Le miséres della vita lo opprimevano."
Natural Translation
Life's miseries weighed him down.
Literal Translation
The miseries of-the life him oppressed.
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