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pitifulness en · NOUN

Etymology

From pitiful + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state or quality of being pitiful.
   • He had definitely shed the pitifulness of his childhood. 1920, Katharine Newlin Burt, Hidden Creek:
   • 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. 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V:

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