Meanings of great wretchedness in English

We had one or two persons at home in great wretchedness to dinner.

There was great misery in the home, and great wretchedness.

Allerleirauh lived there for a long time in great wretchedness.

The tortures have rendered him a cripple, and the family are reduced to a state of great wretchedness.

His conscience, moreover, allowed him no rest in this matter: it harassed him day and night, driving him on sometimes to great wretchedness.

Always suffering from hunger and thirst, excluded from all decent society, hopeless of ever enjoying good things, they lead lives of great wretchedness.

What greater wretchedness can there be than to live degraded in your own estimation?

Many more live in consequence of the introduction of potatoes; but all live in greater wretchedness.

With others, however, it was just the same; and another night of even greater wretchedness followed.

There can be no greater wretchedness than to die in this fashion, despairing of all kindliness and justice.

"Of his great wretchedness, of his broken life- IsupposeI- Ishouldhave trusted to my instinct what to do when I saw her."