PIT'IFUL, a. See Pity. Full of pity tender compassionate having a heart to feel sorrow and sympathy for the distressed. James 5 . 1 Peter 3 This is the proper sense of the word.
1. Miserable moving compassion as a sight most pitiful a pitiful condition.
2. To be pitied for its littleness or meanness paltry contemptible despicable.
That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
3. Very small insignificant.
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