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Definition of Pitiableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitiableness
Literary usage of Pitiableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Latter struggles in the journey of life; or, The afternoon of my days by George Miller (1833)
"pitiableness of my situation at that tune. —Northern routes continued.—The two
new, or supernumerary labourers, when, and where, ..."
2. The Art of the Novelist by Henry Burrowes Lathrop (1919)
"mysteries of humanity, but by its profound pitiableness—a pitiableness found
everywhere, in the virtuous and the sinful, in the prosperous as well as in the ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"Only the pitiableness of it," he said, absently. "It is merely tlie old story.
When you see three jackdaws flying along together in spring-time you know ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1894)
"... situation is the soul which, with advancing education, shall first appreciate
its pitiableness. Amusement is only an antechamber to pity and sacrifice. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"... while it seems to prove man's greatness, in reality, according to Pascal,
proves his littleness and pitiableness. It might be well, in a religious way, ..."
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