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ruefulness|ˈruːfʊlnɪs|
Also 3 reou-, reow-, 5 rew-, 7 rufulnesse.
[f. rueful a. + -ness.]
†1. Compassionateness, pitifulness. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 368 Þet oðer þing is heorte þeauwes, deuociun, reoufulnesse, merci, pite of heorte. c1230Hali Meid. 41 Þolemodnesse & reowfulnesse of euch monnes sorhe. c1440Rel. Pieces Thornton MS. (1867) 51 Rewfulnes sall make the fermorye. c1557Abp. Parker Ps. cxxx. 383 Let Jacob wayt the Lord so gent, Because with God is ruefulnes.
2. Dismalness, dolefulness, dejection.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 25 He..well could daunce; and sing with ruefulnesse. 1595W. Hubbocke Apol. Infants Unbaptized 26 Haue we so learned Christ? are his lawes so ful of ruefulnes? 1613Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xv. (1614) 420 The rufulnesse of this sight was seconded with a more dismall euent. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. lvi. (1779) II. 152 He could not..vanquish the ruefulness of his countenance. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1868) 131 Some, growing bold in ruefulness, predicted that we should land about the middle of July. 1894M. Dyan Man's Keeping (1899) 299 ‘Not exactly,’ said Lanyon, with hesitating ruefulness. |