earm

earm, adj: wretched, miserable. (EH-arm / ˈɛarm)

Medieval manuscript image of Job, wearing only a short loin cloth, sitting on a dung heap; beside the dung heap stand a woman wearing a butterfly headdress, a hat-wearing man and two other men.
Book of Hours; France (Paris), 1430s; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.359, f. 171r. [ica.themorgan.org]

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