Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deserving of commiseration or pity; pitiable; capable of exciting sympathy or sorrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Pitiable.
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- adjective obsolete
pitiable
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.
The Essays 2007
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When she said this to the younger matrons of Lisconnel, they thought that the crathurs 'fate was commiserable indeed, and earnestly hoped that they themselves would be spared, plase God, to witness the splendid careers that lay before their own Denises at present playing among the puddles.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.
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