10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITEOUS»
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piteous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
piteous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... hoist: »move, drive, impel 2 »plunge, dive Ana »fall, drop, sink: »descend: »
jump, leap, spring piteous »pitiful, pitiable Ana imploring, supplicating, entreating,
beseeching (see BEG): »melancholy, doleful, dolorous, plaintive pith »substance,
...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
When they heard that piteous strained voice, In haste forsook their rural
merriment. Spinier. The most arch deed of piteous massacre, That ever yet this
land was guilty of. Shaksp. Which when Deucalion with a piteous look Beheld, he
wept.
Henry John Todd, Samuel Johnson, 1805
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Crabb's English Synonymes
PITEOUS, Doleful, Woful, Rueful. Piteous signifies moving pity (sec Pity). Doleful,
or full of dole, in Latin dolor, pain, signifies indicative of much Eain. Woful, or full
of woe, signifies kewise indicative of woe (see Woe). Rueful, or full of rue, comes
...
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The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History
7. Terrifying. and. Piteous. News. from. Bohemia. (1621)148. [Popular
broadsheets flourished during the Thirty Years War, especially during 1620 and
1621. Many of these, often splendidly illustrated, related the great battles and
events of the ...
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Crabb's English Synonyms
See MAI-ICE; Uusmos. PITEOUS, Donavon, WOFUL, RusI'UL. Piteous signifies
moving pit (see Prrv). Doleful, or full of dole, in tin dolor, pain, signifies indicative
of much Kain Woful, or full of woe, signifies 'kewise indicative of woe (see Woe).
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English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order with ...
Milton. PITIABLE, PITEOUS, PITIFUL. Thksk three epithets drawn from the same
word have shades of difference in sense and application. PITIABLE signifies
deserving of pity ; PITEOUS, moving pity; PITIFUL, full of that which awakens pity:
a ...
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The Facts on File Guide to Good Writing
In the sense “arousing or deserving pity,” all three words are interchangeable (a
piteous condition, a pitiable sight, a pitiful example), but pitiable and pitiful can
also have the additional sense “arousing or deserving contempt,” in which case ...
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New & Original Work of ...
So aweet wu Harold's piteous lay." □Scoff : Lay of the last Minstrel, rl. 35. * 2.
Feeling pity, compassion, or sympathy ; compassionate. "Of nature curteise,
piteous, and of a free and libersjl herte."— Sir T. Elyot : Oovemour, bk. L, ch.vi. * 3
. Pious ...
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order; with ...
656. PITEOUS. PILLAR, COLUMNPILLAR, in French pilier, in all probability
comes from pile, signifying any thing piled up in an artificial lnanner. COLUMN, in
Latin columna, from columen a prop or support. In their original meaning,
therefore, ...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in ...
... in Pittance the scant measure of the receiver. DOLEFUL. Rueful. Piteous.
Woeful. Doleful (0. Fr. dol, grief, with termination -Jul) is exciting or expressing
sadness, and is applicable to anything which has that effect, as a doleful sight or
sound.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PITEOUS»
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piteous is used in the context of the following news items.
Theater review: 'The Boy in the Bathroom'
In Firehouse Theatre's mordant, despairing musical “The Boy in the Bathroom,” 20-something David faces just such a piteous circumstance. «Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jul 15»
Sambo Dasuki: Between martyrdom and felony
Thus his removal from office, the raid on his residences and subsequent arrest hardly sums up as a piteous case of political witch hunt outside ... «Naija247news, Jul 15»
Propofol: The milk of amnesia
Staff on the other side of the surgical curtain heard the piteous cries of her anaesthetist: "Help me! Help me!" They flung open the curtain. «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
Hypocrisy and its hidden horror
Frankly speaking, it was a moment of rude awakening for me because never before had I seen such a piteous face of evil in such a scurrilous ... «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
The 1975 APC Execution *Sorie Fornah & 14 Others, 40 Years ago …
The piteous spectacle outside he then Pademba prison, where the men who had been killed by hanging were displayed for about an hour to ... «Africa Young Voices, Jul 15»
Green: Tiger Woods' struggles painful to watch
A piteous caricature of what he once was. Even Paul Azinger, a one-time champ, slapped at Woods on ESPN after a 76 in Thursday's first ... «The Detroit News, Jul 15»
Nairit Plant workers: If our back wages not paid by late July, one won …
“If our wages are not paid within ten days, I can imagine the piteous state the government will find itself in. We will all enter the prime minister's ... «Panorama.am, Jul 15»
A Day of Dining on $10 in Charleston
I let out the occasional piteous moan, but no one inquired as to my state. At last my turn came. Although local delights like country ham and ... «Eater, Jul 15»
Scoring 2010 Barolo proves daunting task
And my buddy's piteous whimpering is sure to continue for the rest of the summer. OK, officially, I didn't get shut out. I was able to scrounge up ... «Houston Chronicle, Jul 15»
Meet M.E.S.H., The Berlin Introvert Making Hi-Def, Hollywood Sounds
Can you explain what the Piteous Gate is and what it means to you? [The Piteous Gate is in] a really enigmatic scene in the first book in the ... «The FADER, Jul 15»
