ruth

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noun
Plural noun:
ruths
  1. 1.

    (archaic, countable, uncountable)Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.

    2011, Turisas (Mathias Nygård), Hunting Pirates Scum they are! —Foe of mankind! Clear the sea! —Show no ruth!

    Đồng nghĩa: commiseration, rue, bowels, commiseration, compassion, empathy, fellow feeling, mercy, pity, remorse, rue, ruth, sympathy, tenderheartedness, loving-kindness

  2. 2.

    (archaic, countable, uncountable)(now rare) Repentance; regret; remorse.

    1896, A. E. Housman, 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.

    Đồng nghĩa: contrition, agenbite, remorse, rue, ruth, compunction, contrition, guilt, penitence, repentance, self-reproach, sorriness

  3. 3.

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Sorrow; misery; distress.

    Đồng nghĩa: dejection, unhappiness, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness

  4. 4.

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.

    Đồng nghĩa: hardship, sorrow, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grief, grievance, hardship, misery, ruth, sadness, sorrow, undelight, vexation, woe, wrong

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Đồng nghĩa

commiserationruebowelscompassionempathyfellow feelingmercypityremorsesympathytenderheartednessloving-kindnesscontritionagenbitecompunctionguiltpenitencerepentanceself-reproachsorriness

Trái nghĩa

Cùng gốc / liên quan

ruthfulruthlessunruthruthful archaic

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English ruthe, reuthe, reuþe, reowthe, rewthe, from reu, reuen (to feel compassion or pity; to regret, rue; etc.) + -th, -the, possibly influenced by an early Scandinavian language (compare hrygð, hryggð (affliction, grief, sorrow, ruth), from the Proto-Germanic word indicated below). Reuen is derived from Old English hrēowan (to grieve; to regret, rue;

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