Usually means: World of suffering and sorrow.
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  1. vale of tears: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. vale of tears: Wiktionary
  3. Vale of tears: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Vale of Tears: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. vale of tears: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (vale of tears)

noun:  (in the singular) The world, a place where difficulties and the sorrows of life are felt, especially (Christianity) as a place to be left behind when one dies and goes to heaven.
noun:  A particular place of sorrow or suffering.

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