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pitiful (adj.)
c. 1300, "merciful, compassionate" (implied in
pitifully
), from
pity
+
-ful
. Sense of "exciting or deserving pity" is from mid-15c.; that of "mean, wretched, contemptible" is 1580s. Related:
Pitifulness
.
