piteous

1. (obsolete) Showing devotion to God.Examples: "For the Lord kan delyuere piteuouse men fro temptacioun, and kepe wickid men in to the dai of dom to be turmentid;"Synonyms: devout, piousobsolete

2. (obsolete) Showing compassion.Examples: "Thine eye begins to speak; set thy tongue there; Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear; That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce, Pity may move thee ‘pardon’ to rehearse."; "The water Nymphs that in the bottome playd Held up their pearled wrists and tooke her in, Bearing her straite to aged Nereus hall Who piteous of her woes rea[r’]d her lanke head, And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectar’d lavers strewd with asphodil,"; "With that the Goddess (piteous of his case, Yet smiling at his ruful length of face) Gives him a cov’ring,"Synonyms: compassionate, tenderobsolete

3. (obsolete) Of little importance or value.Examples: "[…] calling to minde with heed Part of our Sentence, that thy Seed shall bruise The Serpents head; piteous amends, unless Be meant, whom I conjecture, our grand Foe Satan,"; "[…] my Business was now to try if I could not make Jackets out of the great Watch-Coats which I had by me, and with such other Materials as I had, so I set to Work a Taylering, or rather indeed a Botching, for I made most piteous Work of it."Synonyms: miserable, paltry, pathetic, mean, pitifulobsolete