Thesaurus / pitifulness
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synonyms for pitifulness
On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pitifulness, such as: emotion, passion, poignancy, desolation, feeling, and plaintiveness.
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How to use pitifulness in a sentence
Yet a man of remarkable courtesy and pitifulness towards women was not thereby moved from his purpose.
MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARDShe had the clear judicial mind which must inevitably see the tragic pitifulness of things.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE DE WILLOUGHBY CLAIMFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTThe senses may become terrified by plunging among them as they are, but there is a pitifulness even in their glory.
TWO ON A TOWERTHOMAS HARDYCranmer suddenly stretched out, with a timid pitifulness, his white hands.
THE FIFTH QUEEN CROWNEDFORD MADOX FORDThis sudden and complete revolution in her behavior was not owing to any change in principle, but to sheer pitifulness of temper.
THE VICISSITUDES OF BESSIE FAIRFAXHARRIET PARRI was angry enough but, as I read the letter for the third time, the pitifulness of it became more apparent.
KENT KNOWLES: QUAHAUGJOSEPH C. LINCOLNThere is a certain touch of smallness and pitifulness, he said, in all religion, but especially in experimental religion.
BUNYAN CHARACTERSALEXANDER WHYTEJimmy sat down again, impelled by the pitifulness of the thin white face.
TRAVELERS FIVE ALONG LIFE'S HIGHWAYANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTONYet even here the tender pitifulness of Dorothea overpasses a barrier that to any other would be impassable.
THE ETHICS OF GEORGE ELIOT'S WORKSJOHN CROMBIE BROWNThe pitifulness of it is to see the incongruity between such faith, such devotion, and the distasteful inadequacy of their object.
THE LIFE OF NELSON, VOL. I (OF 2)A. T. (ALFRED THAYER) MAHANWORDS RELATED TO PITIFULNESS
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