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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.
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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, 七月 15»
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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, 七月 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, 七月 15»
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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, 七月 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, 七月 15»
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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, 七月 15»