patheticalness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being pathetic; pathos.

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Examples

  • But this afternoon the familiar history had a new patheticalness for her, and as the old soul put aside with her palsied hand the square of canvas that screened the casement, and looked out, with her old dim sad eyes strained in the longing that God never answered, Bébée felt a strange chill at her own heart, and wondered to herself, --

    Bebee 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • I believe that a large amount of the dreamy and sentimental sadness, tendency to reverie, and general patheticalness of modern life results merely from derangement of stomach; holding to the Greek life the same relation that the feverish night of an adult does to a child's sleep.

    Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

  • Personally, I don't think porn awards could ever reach the depths of patheticalness that the Oscars have.

    LUKE IS BACK LUKE IS BACK 2010

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