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ruthn. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps modelled on an early Scandinavian lexical item. Etymons: rue v.1, -th suffix1. Etymology: < rue v.1 + -th suffix1, perhaps after early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hryggð ). Compare earlier rue n.1 archaic in later use. the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 95 (MED) Miserere anime tue..haue reoðe of þin ogen sovle. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 149 (MED) Þe gastliche rode is inemned heorte sar..and rowðe for his emcristenes wawe. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 1445 (MED) Ne mai ich for reoþe lete, Wanne ich iseo þe tohte ilete Þe luue bring on þe ȝunglinge. ?a1300 (Bodl.) (1916) l. 104 (MED) Ruben, þat o broþer..Ne miȝte he for reuþe atte pette be þo. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 2339 Ðo cam iosep swilc rewðe up-on. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 349 And þerwith-al in you þere be no rouþe Than is it harm þat ye lyuen by my trouþe. c1450 (1900) 310 Ȝyue þe poore ruthe & compassioun of þin herte. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in (1998) I. 49 For never bot in a gentill hert is generit ony ruth. 1508 (Chepman & Myllar) sig. ciiiiv Knichtis ramyt for reuth schir gawyne thai rew. 1575 G. Gascoigne lxii. 177 And yet can man..Vse wracke for rewth? can murder like him best? c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas iii. in (1898) I. 413 With dying groanes..For rewth would rent a flinty heart a sunder. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth. 1748 J. Thomson i. lii Oft they snatch the pen, As if inspir'd,..Then write, and blot, as would your ruth engage. 1774 J. Beattie xxx. 16 If my desultory strain with ruth And indignation make thine eyes o'erflow. 1796 G. L. Way tr. P. J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy I. 24 It fill'd his heart with ruth For the poor helpless maid and captive youth. 1808 W. Scott ii. xix. 98 Upon whose wrinkled brow alone, Nor ruth, nor mercy's trace is shown. 1861 T. Hughes I. xvi. 304 He..was filled with ruth for the poor wrong-headed youngster. 1878 S. Cox (ed. 3) i. 6 Another slight but significant indication of this mood of ruth and pity. 1928 N. Shepherd xvii. 278 Suddenly she loved him for it. A passion of ruth laid hold of her—tender, amused, affectionate, profoundly moving. 1986 (Nexis) 29 Sept. 30 The sackers are come with no ruth For any careful old truth. 2005 A. Miller v. 71 The emus stood and looked at me, orange eyes full of ruth and meaning. society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 49 (MED) Vte we..habben on ure heorte sorinesse and reuðe of ure synnes. a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 46 (MED) Vnwunne haueþ myn wonges wet þat makeþ me rouþes rede. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 25749 (MED) He..wil..mak to preist his costes cuth Wit reuth of hert and scrifte o mouth. a1425 (Lansd.) (1902) 21 (MED) Wid greting sal sho do, and wyd reuþe of herte, þe penance þat es laid on hir. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) v. l. 5309 Ȝhe walde noucht Withe rewthe of hart forthynk ȝoure syn. ?a1603 E. Grymeston (1604) sig. F4v Thou pardon promisest Where hearts true ruth is showne. 1603 J. Davies 93 Thus when our Teares doe testifie our ruth, We neede not..of them be asham'd. 1628 R. Hayman ii. 23 Whilst concious men of smallest sinnes haue ruth, Bold sinners count great Sinnes, but tricks of youth. 1798 W. Wordsworth Female Vagrant in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge 83 What afflicts my peace with keenest ruth Is, that I have my inner self abused, Foregone the home delight of constant truth, And clear and open soul. 1855 M. Arnold 77 I seek these Anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth. 1906 W. Hall 336 Since I have drunk of grief's gall-mingled cup My soul is filled with ruth. 1980 T. Stoppard (rev. ed.) ii. 65 I had terrible PCR..Post-coital remorse. Post-coital ruth. †3. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] > cause of sorrow a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 219 (MED) Acke nu is reweþe, for nu is euerihc man ifo þare he solde fren be. ?a1300 (Bodl.) (1916) l. 184 (MED) Woso seye Iacob his sorinesse lede, Hit were muche reuþe in boc for to rede. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 2258 (MED) Þe brutons..bigonne vaste to fle, Some in roches, some in wodes, þat reuþe it was to se. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 501 Now is routhe to rede how þe red noble Is reuerenced. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve (Harl. 4866) (1897) 330 The more ruthe is: allas! ?1507 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 97 Gret reuth it wer that so suld be. 1508 (Chepman & Myllar) sig. d The roy ramand ful raith yt reuth wes to se. 1590 E. Spenser iii. v. sig. Gg That is great woe, And wondrous ruth to all, that shall it heare. a1626 L. Andrewes (1661) 223 If he were not a man, but some other unreasonable creature, it were great ruth to see him so handled. the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 10064 Him halded after hauekes swifte hundes in þan reode mid reouðe hine imeteð. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 10861 Þenne is þat folc buten wene þat reouðe heom is to cumene, of summes cunnes leoden þe þat lond wulleð i-sechen. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 7693 He de[de] ribaudes ten þousinde Bren þat þai miȝtten finde, So he dede michel rewþe. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 8378 A womman loueþ ofte in pryuyte..Ȝyf she to þat ȝeueþ here treuþe, Þat ys here ful moche reuþe..Þurgh cunseyl of here frendys..She ys þan ȝyue a-noþer vntyl..Þat womman leueþ yn lechery. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 4010 (MED) Sire, it is better for to bate..Þan se þis rewthe on ȝour renkis & reft be ȝour gudis. 1584 R. Greene f. 5 Thou shalt find..lusting Loue the load-stone to ruth and ruine. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe 111 Yet now I doe repent me of his ruth, And wish that I had neuer wrongd him so. 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. ix. 77 Ile keepe my oath, Paciently to beare my wroath . View more context for this quotation 1615 R. Brathwait 48 See here the fall of youth, Begun in pleasure, but wouen vp in rueth. 1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in 670 Cholerike kings and persons of great note..hereby have wrought their own ruth and ruine. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1981) l. 857 (MED) Nalde ȝe neauer remen ne makie reoðe [c1225 Royal reowðe] for me, þe feare to eche reste. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 6473 Þe king dæd læi & þe swike fleh awæi; Þat word com to herede hu þe king iuaren hafde, þa wes muchel reoðe. c1300 (?c1225) (Cambr.) (1901) l. 673 (MED) Muchel was þe ruþe Þat was at þare truþe; For Rymenhild weop ille, & horn let þe tires stille. a1375 (c1350) (1867) 2115 (MED) Al murrþe was seced riuedliche þurth rome & reuþe bi-gunne. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 24054 (MED) Moder! traistnes of ur treuth, Do vs to reu al wit þi reuth. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 669 This woful Cleopatre hath mad swich routhe That ther is tunge non that may it telle. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll.) 222 Than wepte kynge Arthure for routhe at his herte and seyde, ‘Thou shalt lyve for ever, my herte thynkes.’ a1500 in T. Wright (1847) 34 (MED) Man, be war or thou knyte the faste; Oftyn ran rewth at the last. 1562 G. Legh 209 Wherefore, leaue of this rewthe, and seke to liue by Hope. 1591 E. Spenser tr. Petrarch Visions ii, in sig. Z2 O how great ruth and sorrowfull assay, Doth vex my spirite with perplexitie. 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xxii, in I. 774 Here lyes to each her parents ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth. 1654 E. Johnson 116 The supreame judge of all the World..stood not as an idle spectator beholding his peoples Ruth. 1794 W. L. Bowles (ed. 3) 84 The winding ways That lead to sin, and ruth, and deep lament. a1806 H. K. White (1807) I. 285 That every age, and rank, is born to ruth. 1841–6 H. W. Longfellow xiv Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth. 1868 J. F. Kirk III. v. iii. 441 Flanders and Hainault had their share of ruth for gallant sons and stalwart sires. 1895 23 Nov. 748/1 He paused to look up at the stars, as if wondering at their happy twinkling with that churchyard beneath them and such ruth as his. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) l. 225 (MED) Weila þet reowðe. Ne acwikeð neauer meiðhad efter þet wunde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 12729 Arður bi-tahte al..Moddrade and þere quene..Þat was ufele idon..þis lond heo for-radden mid ræuðen uniuoȝen. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iii. l. 1597 (MED) I scholde in such a wise In rewardinge of my servise Be ded, me thenkth it were a rowthe. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. 1450 (MED) It is to gret a routhe To recorde how ȝe haue hir vsed. c1450 (a1400) (Calig.) (1965) l. 991 A gret rewthe yt was to here How he called aftur Cristabell. 1490 (1962) xlv. 174 She lened vpon a wyndowe that loked vpon the see, makyng full pyteouse rewthes for her loue that she sawe. 1490 (1962) iv. 20 After the rewthes and lamentacions of the kynge. 1589 G. Puttenham iii. xix. 182 They say it is a ruth to see thy louer neede. Phrasesa1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 95 (MED) Miserere anime tue..haue reoðe of þin ogen sovle. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 19 Habbeð reowðe of þeo þe beoð i stronge temptatiuns. a1300 Passion our Lord l. 322 in R. Morris (1872) 46 (MED) Of þe kynge of heuene none reuþe hi nedde. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) 421 (MED) Vnder heuen nas þat it ne miȝt haue rewþe Of his sorwenes & of his trewþe. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) 972 Þerof clatered þe cloudes þat Krd yst myȝt haf rawþe. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena (Harl.) (1966) 170 (MED) Þei crien goostly in my siȝt..hauynge moore pytee and ruþe for þe offence þat is doon to me..þan for her owne iniuries and wrongis. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Claud.) (1974) l. 1361 (MED) Hast þou in herte rowþe I-had Of hem þat were nede be-stad? 1509 J. Fisher (de Worde) sig. Aviijv These two persones had so grete ruthe and compassyon of theyr maysters. c1540 (?a1400) 8511 He hade no ruthe of hor remyng. 1567 (1897) 170 O Lord,..Haif reuth on me thy Creature. 1616 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing (1924) II. 145 The judges, haiving reuthe and compassione in mercie. 1819 W. Scott III. ii. 57 Have ruth on me, and let me go! 1826 A. M. Porter (1827) I. xiv. 339 Lord Francis had no ruth for persons he despised. 1860 E. B. Pusey 191 She has no one to raise her up; none to have ruth upon her. 1908 J. Payne 269 Attesting, in the face of earth and sea And sky, that quaked for pity of His pain, Having more ruth upon Him than the Lord To whom He cried in vain, That He [etc.]. 1931 1 Oct. 742/4 Nobody can accuse such a writer of failing in humanitarianism; but he has no ruth here for the nebulous idealists. a1959 D. Schwartz Ballad of Children of Czar in J. Kasdorf & M. Tyrrell (2007) 42 History has no ruth For the individual, Who drinks tea, who catches cold. c1380 (1879) 784 (MED) Iantail knyȝt, of me tak rewþe as þow art god & hende. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. l. 1060 (MED) O hihe mageste..Tak of thi wofull womman rowthe. a1554 J. Croke tr. (1844) xxxii. 8 Vppon me then thou wolt take ruthe. 1577 R. Holinshed II. 1851/2 Taking ruth of their miserable estates. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxvii. 37 in (1998) II. 103 Will god no more take ruth? 1861 C. Reade III. iv. 121 Mayhap the miller will take ruth on me. 1906 A. Conan Doyle vii. 76 I have prayed you to take ruth, and indeed I can do no more. 1949 D. L. Sayers tr. Dante (1950) ii. 80 Heaven hath a noble Lady, who doth take Ruth of this man thou goest to disensnare. Compounds 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne iii. iv. 501 With feruent and continuall ruth-mooving motion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1200 |
