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reck | ruth |

As a verb reck

is to make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.

As a noun ruth is

(archaic) sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.

reck

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Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • this son of mine not recking danger
  • * Burns
    • And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
  • * 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
    • Ophelia:
    Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
    Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
    Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
    Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
    And recks not his own rede.
  • *
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
  • To care; to matter.
  • * 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
    • Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
    Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
  • * 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11
  • *:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
  • *:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair
  • To concern, to be important
    • It recks not!
  • * Milton
    • What recks it them?
  • (obsolete) To think.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * reckless

    ruth

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
  • *, II.11:
    • It was my fortune to be at Rome'', upon a day that one ''Catena , a notorious high-way theefe, was executed: at his strangling no man of the companie seemed to be mooved to any ruth .
  • * 1847 , , (Jane Eyre) , Chapter IV, 1859, New York, Harper & Brothers, page 14:
    • under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth .
  • * 2011 , Turisas (Mathias Nygård), Hunting Pirates
    • Scum they are! —Foe of mankind!
    Clear the sea! —Show no ruth !
  • * 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad)'', XLIV, 2005, ''The Works of A. E. Housman'' [1994, ''The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman ], page 61,
    • Now to your grave shall friend and stranger / With ruth and some with envy come.
  • * ~1937 , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
    • He mourned too late
    In ruth for the rending of the Round Table.
  • (obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress.
  • (obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.

    • Derived terms

    * ruthful * ruthless

    Anagrams

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