piteous
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They have the acute feeling for country sights & sounds at which Anglo-Saxon poets are supposed to excel: for them the air often seems freesia-sweet, Piteous, to eye and ear, as a lamb's bleat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Piteous weeping wears away her cheeks: but no more piteous than Odysseus’ tears, cloaked as they were, now, from the company.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
But of those Kind of Thoughts which are in themselves good, only these three do properly belong to Pastoral; namely, The Agreeable, or Joyous; The Mournful, or Piteous; And the Soft or Tender.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas
Piteous sorrow poured upon her like a flood.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Piteous is now rarely used in its earlier sense of feeling pity, but in its derived sense applies to what really excites the emotion; as, a piteous cry.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
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