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Definition of Piteousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piteousness
Literary usage of Piteousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"She did not even speak, but sat looking at her hands, absorbed in the piteousness
of that thought. Will, however, having given that annihilating pinch, ..."
2. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"It was not till I was aware of these ghostly faces, and of the reproach that
could not be gainsaid which was in their eyes, that the full piteousness of the ..."
3. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"She did not even speak, but sat looking at her hands, absorbed in the piteousness
of that thought. Will, however, having given that annihilating pinch, ..."
4. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"It was not till I was aware of these ghostly faces, and of the reproach that
could not be gainsaid which was in their eyes, that the full piteousness of the ..."
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