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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pit·e·ous a.
 1. Pious; devout. [Obs.]
    The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.   --Wyclif.
 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. “[She] piteous of his case.”
    She was so charitable and so pitous.   --Chaucer.
 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
    --Spenser.
    The most piteous tale of Lear.   --Shak.
 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. “Piteous amends.”
 Syn: -- Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate.
 -- Pit*e*ous*ly, adv. -- Pit*e*ous*ness, n.
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