PITEOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary We have done all kinds of things for this most unfortunate and piteous class of women You can always get up and make a piteous and pathetic appeal, but do not let us be carried away by sentiment Some demands, some claims, some piteous appeals there will always be, do what you will
piteous, adj. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary Piteous of woes, and hopeless to relieve The one sweet plant, which, piteous Heaven agreeing, They bore with them thro' Eden's closing gate! She was still held to be subject to piteous concern His jest goes near to break my piteous heart 2 a Arousing or apt to arouse pity; deserving pity; moving a person to compassion; = pitiful adj A 3