ruth
see also: Ruth
Pronunciation
Ruth
Pronunciation
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see also: Ruth
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹuːθ/
ruth (uncountable)
- (archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy. [from 13th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- 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, Charlotte Brontë, 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!
- (now rare) Repentance; regret; remorse. [from 13th c.]
- 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.
- 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 ↗,
- (obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress. [13th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight. [13th-17th c.]
- Spanish: lamento
Ruth
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹuːθ/
- A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
- Synonyms: Rth.
- Ruth, the resident of Moab around whom the text centers.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Ruth 1:16 ↗:
- And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
- A female given name.
- 1945 Agatha Christie, Sparkling Cyanide, HarperCollins (2010), ISBN 978-0-00-735470-2, page 30:
- Her face hardened.
- "I despise pity."
- "In spite of your name? Ruth is your name, isn't it? Piquant that. Ruth the ruthless."
- 1982 Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Fawcett Columbine, 1996, ISBN 0449911594, page 134
- He pictured the woman as dark and Biblical, because of her name: Ruth. Shadowed eyes and creamy skin. Torrents of loose black hair.
- 1945 Agatha Christie, Sparkling Cyanide, HarperCollins (2010), ISBN 978-0-00-735470-2, page 30:
- CDP in White Pine County, Nevada.
- CDP in Trinity County, California.
- French: livre de Ruth
- German: Ruth, Buch Rut
- Italian: Rut
- Portuguese: Rute
- Russian: Кни́га Руфь
- Spanish: Rut
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