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单词 piteousness
释义

piteousness

/ˈpɪtɪəsnəs /
noun [mass noun]
1The quality of deserving or arousing pity: the central irony and piteousness of the story...
  • I shook my head at her piteousness.
  • There is great piteousness as well as great fear in the kind of supernatural talent that might allow a person to see the unseen.
  • It was not till I was aware of these ghostly faces that the full piteousness of the ruin that had been wrought was revealed to me.
2 [count noun] rare A flock of doves: a piteousness of doves pecked at his window...
  • A piteousness of doves is cooing in the banyan trees.
  • A piteousness of doves alighted on the edge of the cirque.
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