Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
piteous .
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Examples
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She was "so pitous" that she wept to see a mouse caught, or if one of her little dogs died.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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She was so charitable and so pitous, and then, as we are waiting to hear of her almsgiving to the poor -- that she would weep over a mouse in a trap, or a beaten puppy, says Chaucer.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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The Dogs that Blog - Même les pitous peuvent s'exprimer
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