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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Ruth; sorrow.
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- noun obsolete
ruth ;sorrow
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Examples
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And yet Custance hadde of his deeth greet routhe —
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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That him were levere han shame — and that were routhe —
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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With-outen his gilt, but for hir lakked routhe, 1280
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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That fele I now, 'quod he, ` and that is routhe; 895
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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