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Definition of Piteously

Piteously
Piteous Pit"e*ous, a. [OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See Pity.] 1. Pious; devout. [Obs.] The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. --Wyclif. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. ``[She] piteous of his case.' --Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. --Chaucer. 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. --Spenser. The most piteous tale of Lear. --Shak. 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. ``Piteous amends.' --Milton. Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate. -- Pit"e*ous*ly, adv. -- Pit"e*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Piteously from wikipedia

- Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others. The word is comparable to comp****ion, condolence, or empathy. It derives from the Latin...
- Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this City". York Records...
- temple-floors with their dishevelled hair and lifted up their hands to heaven in piteous entreaty to the gods that they would deliver the City of Rome out of the...
- Full, as, for example, a voce piena = "in full voice" pietoso Pitiful, piteous più More; see mosso piuttosto Rather, somewhat (e.g. allegro piuttosto...
- depths of ****   Caïna waits for him who took our lives."   This was the piteous tale they stopped to tell. Francesca further reports that she and Paolo...
- Romani woman a few miles down the road carrying a child that was crying piteously. Scouts were immediately dispatched in the direction indicated, and they...
- abbraide, Knowing no mean but death in her distrèsse, To her brothèr full piteously she said, "Cause of my sorrowe, roote of my heavinesse, That whilom were...
- of modified words, as in the series "pitiable", "pity", "pitied" and "piteous" (Ch. 81, "The Pequod Meets the Virgin"). Second, the use of existing words...
- Strickland claiming that the princess and her sisters were left ‘in a piteous state.’ However, modern examination of the evidence suggests otherwise...
- 671–678. ISSN 0016-3120. JSTOR 27657051. "...some p****ages are an almost piteously literal rendering..." Bentley Hart, David (16 January 2018). "A Reply...