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† pietous, a. Obs.
Also 5 pyetous, 6 Sc. pietuous, -ious, -eous.
[a. OF. pietous, piteus:—late L. pietōs-us, f. pietās piety: see -ous, -itous.]
An early form of piteous, q.v.
(In Chaucer and Gower, of three syllables pi-et-ous, but in 16th c. Sc. writers pronounced pit-ous or piet-e-ous, and so passing into piteous.)
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1395 (1444) (Corpus) As thoughte him tho, for pietous [v.rr. piteous, pitous] distresse. 1390Gower Conf. III. 193 Bot wher a king is Pietous [v.rr. pitous, -eous, -euous], He is the more gracious. Ibid. 202 Fro which he hath with strengthe prived The pietous [v.rr. pitous, piteuous] Justinian. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. vii. 17 Fiers to his enemyes, pyetous to them that be vainquisshed. 1490― Eneydos ii. 15 It were a thynge inhumayne to beholde theym wythoute pyte, but yet more pyetous to telle it lyke as it was doon in dede. 1513Douglas æneis ix. viii. 49 Wyth hyr peteus [ed. 1553 pietuous] reuthfull complayntes sayr The hevynnis all scho fillit and the ayr. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 36 With voice full pietious. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxviii. 14 Ane pieteous spreit appeirit to my thocht.
Hence † pietously adv. Obs., piteously.
1474Caxton Chesse ii. v. D v, Thou emperour gouerne the peple pyetously. c1489― Sonnes of Aymon xxii. 473 The four sones of aymon..that so many tymes have praied for it humbly & full pyetously. |