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pitifulness

noun

Etymology

From pitiful + -ness.

  1. inherited from pityful
  2. suffixed as pitifulness — “pitiful + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being pitiful.

    • He had definitely shed the pitifulness of his childhood.
    • The Jugurtha of the same author is in an exactly similar way designed partly to expose the pitifulness of the oligarchic government, partly to glorify the Coryphaeus of the democracy, Gaius Marius.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA