A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pietious-, Pieteously, -lie, adv. [Pietuo(u)s a. Cf. Pietouslie, Pete(o)usly.] Pitiably. = Petuo(u)sly adv. —1513 Doug. x. x. 119 (Ruddim.).
Pieteously 1560 Rolland Seven S. 4643.
Pieteouslie 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 65.
The pepill … luking pietiously schawit ane foirtakin of na gude luck to cum
