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CIDE DICTIONARY
- Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. [1913 Webster]"To stir up gentle ruth,
Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth." [1913 Webster] - That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. [1913 Webster]"It had been hard this ruth for to see." [1913 Webster]"With wretched miseries and woeful ruth." [1913 Webster]
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ruth
attrition, benevolence, clemency, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolence, contrition, favor, feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, mitigation, pardon, pathos, penance, penitently, pity, quarter, relief, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, reprieve, rue, self-pity, sympathyROGET THESAURUS
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Pity
N pity, compassion, commiseration, bowels, of compassion, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency, leniency, charity, ruth, long- suffering, melting mood, argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae, sympathizer, advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher, pitying, pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched, merciful, clement, ruthful, humane, humanitarian, tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, soft hearted, unhardened, lenient, exorable, forbearing, melting, weak, Int, for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!, one's heart bleeding for, haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco, a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind, onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.Also see definition of "ruth" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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