pitifulness

English

Etymology

pitiful +‎ -ness

Noun

pitifulness (usually uncountable, plural pitifulnesses)

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