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noun ruːθruθ mass nounarchaic A feeling of pity, distress, or grief. Example sentencesExamples - The young men, fiery savage children of a gentle civilized mother, slew with neither ruth nor pity.
- And speak me no soft words in ruth or pity, but tell me plainly how thou didst get sight of him. --Homer, The Odyssey
- But when it comes to making personnel decisions, Johnson is legendarily ruthless; not an ounce of ruth in him.
- Her honesty is never ruthless in the strict sense of the word; there is ruth, or mercy, even for the worst.
Synonyms compassion, commiseration, condolence, sorrow, regret, sadness, distress, sympathy, fellow feeling, understanding, feeling, emotion
Origin Middle English: from the verb rue1, probably influenced by Old Norse hrygth. Rhymes buck tooth, couth, Duluth, forsooth, Maynooth, sleuth, sooth, strewth, tooth, truth, youth proper nounruːθruθ A book of the Bible telling the story of Ruth, a Moabite woman, who married her deceased husband's kinsman Boaz and bore a son who became grandfather to King David.
nounro͞oTHruθ archaic A feeling of pity, distress, or grief. Example sentencesExamples - But when it comes to making personnel decisions, Johnson is legendarily ruthless; not an ounce of ruth in him.
- Her honesty is never ruthless in the strict sense of the word; there is ruth, or mercy, even for the worst.
- The young men, fiery savage children of a gentle civilized mother, slew with neither ruth nor pity.
- And speak me no soft words in ruth or pity, but tell me plainly how thou didst get sight of him. --Homer, The Odyssey
Synonyms compassion, commiseration, condolence, sorrow, regret, sadness, distress, sympathy, fellow feeling, understanding, feeling, emotion
Origin Middle English: from the verb rue, probably influenced by Old Norse hrygth. proper nounro͞oTHruθ A book of the Bible telling the story of Ruth, a Moabite woman, who married her deceased husband's kinsman Boaz and bore a son, Obed, who became grandfather to King David.
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