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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1501-1572

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Pieti(o)us, -eous, a. [Cf. Pietous a., also Peteo(u)s a., Piteous a.] Piteous, in senses 1 a and 2 of Petuo(u)s a. a. Deserving pity. b. Feeling pity.a. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. III. 84.
It was ane pieteous thing … the pereist folk to se
1560 Rolland Seven Sages 1258.
The empreour … Hard the … sorie pieteous call Of the emprice
1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 154.
Behauld this pietious body
1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 136.
He … makis pieteous caressing unto thame to mak thame haue pietie on him
1571 Sempill Sat. P. xxviii. 14.
Ane pieteous spreit appeirit to my thocht
b. a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 470.
Vith pietius hert … thou suld behald How thai tham dres
1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 1100.
The gentyll pieteous pillycane

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