Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
pity .
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Examples
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S. de Cressy has "in party" = part, but the word seems to be "pite" = pity.
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I would love to be in that space - so inspiring, perfect for artists and designers alike. pite Says:
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LAMB: OK, but, what a-- what pite -- in history, what white politician?
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We have - er, had - villages a mile apart in the Vale of Res - pite.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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We have - er, had - villages a mile apart in the Vale of Res - pite.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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We have - er, had - villages a mile apart in the Vale of Res - pite.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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Des - pite Plato, there is no evidence that any poet ever regarded himself as “possessed” (manikos) in the same sense as the Pythia at Delphi.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968
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At last, the pardoners "hadden pite and pullede hym to house"; they washed him and clothed him and sent him to church on Sundays with bulls and seals appended, to sell "pardons for pans" (pence).
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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[158] "But in all this the swete eye of pite and love cumith never of us, ne the werkyng of mercy cesyth not."
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"No, he vos out, getting a pite to eat," replied the shipping-clerk.
Richard Dare's Venture Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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