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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ruth has 4 senses
- ruth(n = noun.person) babe ruth, george herman ruth, sultan of swat - United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948); Array is a kind of ballplayer, baseball player
- ruth(n = noun.person) Array - the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament; Array is a kind of married woman, wife
- ruth(n = noun.feeling) commiseration, pathos, pity - a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" is a kind of fellow feeling, sympathy
- ruth(n = noun.communication) book of ruth - a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died; Array is a kind of book
is a part of old testament, hagiographa, ketubim, writings
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. [1913 Webster]"To stir up gentle ruth,
Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth." [1913 Webster] - That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. [1913 Webster]"It had been hard this ruth for to see." [1913 Webster]"With wretched miseries and woeful ruth." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
ruth
attrition, benevolence, clemency, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolence, contrition, favor, feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, mitigation, pardon, pathos, penance, penitently, pity, quarter, relief, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, reprieve, rue, self-pity, sympathyROGET THESAURUS
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Pity
N pity, compassion, commiseration, bowels, of compassion, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency, leniency, charity, ruth, long- suffering, melting mood, argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae, sympathizer, advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher, pitying, pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched, merciful, clement, ruthful, humane, humanitarian, tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, soft hearted, unhardened, lenient, exorable, forbearing, melting, weak, Int, for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!, one's heart bleeding for, haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco, a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind, onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.
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