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Ruthful   Listen
adjective
Ruthful  adj.  Full of ruth; as:
(a)
Pitiful; tender.
(b)
Full of sorrow; woeful.
(c)
Causing sorrow.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ruthful" Quotes from Famous Books



... as it never had been before, to this young knight who had shed his blood in my behalf; but while I gazed down right lovingly into his face the Swabian came close up to him with ruthful eyes, and from those of the wounded man there shot at me a glance so full of hate and malice that I shuddered before it. This was an end, then, to all pity and tenderness. And yet, as I looked on his cold, set face, as pale and white as dull chalk, I could not ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... Sweet Almeda, pity the ruthful plight Of Callapine, the son of Bajazeth, Born to be monarch of the western world, Yet ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part II. • Christopher Marlowe



Words linked to "Ruthful" :   penitent, remorseful, repentant, contrite, rueful, ruthfulness



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