Dolorous vs Piteous - What's the difference?
dolorous | piteous | Related terms |
Solemnly or ponderously sad.
* 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:
* 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
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pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) pious; devout
* Wyclif
(obsolete) compassionate; tender
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful
Dolorous is a related term of piteous.
As adjectives the difference between dolorous and piteous
is that dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad while piteous is pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.dolorous
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
- Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
- Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
- . . . Hell itself will pass away,
- And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
- From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
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- As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.
piteous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The most piteous tale of Lear.
- The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.
- [She was] piteous of his case.
- (Milton)