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ruthful, a. Now arch.|ˈruːθfʊl|
[f. ruth n.1]
1. Full of compassion or pity; compassionate.
a1225Ancr. R. 222 He bihalt on oðre þet he ne mei nones weis makien vuele iðoncked, so lufful & so reouðful is hire heorte. 1340Ayenb. 198 Þe rewþeuolle, and þo þet doþ ham to þe poure and to þe workes of merci,..ssolle by do in-to sayzine of þe riche of heuene. 14..Pol., Rel., & L. Poems 254 Biholt, þou man wiþ routhful herte, Þe sharpe scourge wiþ knottes smerte. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlvii. 74 Ane lufe..So riche, so rewthfull and discreit,..Nevir moir salbe nor ȝit hes bene. 1595Barnfield Cassandra (1841) 31 It mou'd compassion in this ruthfull Dame. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. iv. 1029 Who on me cast A ruthfull eye. 1827Hood Hero & Leander xxvi, Let ruthful dolphins rest him on their back.
Comb.c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 52 Ȝe rame as ȝe wer rent, And thay ar rewthfull hairtit.
2. That excites compassion or pity; lamentable, piteous, rueful.
a1225Ancr. R. 326 Þet oðer þing is þe muchele & þe reouðfule lure þet he uorleoseð. a1240Sawles Warde in O.E. Hom. I. 253 Swa is þe sihðe grislich ant reowðful to bihalden. c1320Cast. Love 197 Þus Adam þorw reuþful rage Was cast out of his heritage. c1440Pallad. on Husb. ix. 9 In Aust ek, yf the vyneyerd be lene And she, thy vyne, a ruthful thing to se. 1513Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 71 The reuthfull smert and lamentable cace..of Leander ȝing. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. i. 66 Complots of Mischiefe, Treason, Villanies Ruthfull to heare. 1607Milwarde Jacobs Gt. Day (1610) I 3 b, Jeremy..makes a description of a sad and ruthfull day.., a day of sorrow. 1655J. Owen Vind. Evang. Wks. 1853 XII. 460 Astonishment arising from the contemplation of some ruthful spectacle. 1703Rowe Ulysses iii. i, It is a heavy and a ruthful Tale. 1808Scott Marm. iv. xvi, When last this ruthful month was come. 1840Browning Sordello i. 687 Or say a ruthful chance broke woof and warp.
b. Of sounds, actions, etc. (passing into the sense ‘expressive of grief or sorrow’).
13..K. Alis. 6501 (W.), And thanne they maken a reouthful crye. c1330King of Tars 267 Merci heo criyede..With a reuthful stevene. a1425Cursor M. 14301 (Trin.), Lazares frendes..Cryed & made reuþeful chere. 1495Trevisa's De P.R. xviii. lxxvi. 830 He [the cat] makyth a ruthefull noyse and gastfull whan one profryth to fyghte wyth a nother. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 150 And tune your pypes as ruthful as ye may. 1598Yong Diana 400 My ruthfull song and verse shall not intreate..Of any flames. 1604T. Wright Passions v. 181 The voyce ought sometimes to bee interrupted with wofull exclamations and ruthfull repetitions. 1663Sparke Prim. Devot. (ed. 3) 218 Wheresoever is this man of sorrows, there is likewise the same Ruthfull Ecce! Behold the man! 1861Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 67 To do this desperate wrong in sight of all The ruthful faces of the Saints in Heaven.
c. Of persons or feelings (passing into the sense ‘sad, dejected, doleful’).
1513Douglas æneis xii. xiii. 209 Thir sa gret dolouris mycht I end in hy, And with my reuthfull brother go. 1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 37 Most greedy gripes with plunging paines, do pierce my ruthfull hart. 1584–7Greene Carde of Fancie Wks. (Grosart) IV. 168 She who of late was a royall Princesse, was now a ruthfull prisoner. 1831Palgrave Hist. Anglo-Sax. 352 Sad and ruthful were the forebodings of the English. |