deserving+pity

  • 111pitiable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) deserving or arousing pity. 2) contemptibly poor or small. DERIVATIVES pitiably adverb …

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  • 112pitiably — pitiable ► ADJECTIVE 1) deserving or arousing pity. 2) contemptibly poor or small. DERIVATIVES pitiably adverb …

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  • 113pitiful — ► ADJECTIVE 1) deserving or arousing pity. 2) very small or poor; inadequate. DERIVATIVES pitifully adverb pitifulness noun …

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  • 114pitifully — pitiful ► ADJECTIVE 1) deserving or arousing pity. 2) very small or poor; inadequate. DERIVATIVES pitifully adverb pitifulness noun …

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  • 115pitifulness — pitiful ► ADJECTIVE 1) deserving or arousing pity. 2) very small or poor; inadequate. DERIVATIVES pitifully adverb pitifulness noun …

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  • 116silly —    In modern use ‘silly’ normally means foolish, lacking in common sense. In earlier times it meant deserving of pity, or defenceless. Shakespeare’s reference to silly women in Two Gentlemen of Verona is to be interpreted in the latter sense.… …

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  • 117piteous — adj. deserving or causing pity; wretched. Derivatives: piteously adv. piteousness n. Etymology: ME pito(u)s etc. f. AF pitous, OF pitos f. Rmc (as PIETY) …

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  • 118PEACE — (Heb. שָׁלוֹם, shalom). In the Bible The verb shalem (so both the perfect, Gen. 15:16, and the participle, Gen. 33:18) in the qal means to be whole, complete, or sound. PEACE. The range of nuances is rather wide. That the iniquity of the Amorites …

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