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Pious; devout.

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  1. a. Pious; devout.
  2. a. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
  3. a. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
  4. a. Paltry; mean; pitiful.
  5. adj. deserving or inciting pity
  6. j:100 s deserving or inciting pity