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pathetical

  • a variation of pathetic.
    pathetic
    adjective
    causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable.

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There was something pathetical in his discontent with his secluded life which touched Wogan to the heart.

From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Mr. Wogan would, I think, be extremely amusing with so pathetical a subject for his Muse.

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

I know of no Virtue in the Gospel that is in more pathetical Expressions recommended to our Practice.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison

This is admirably pathetical, and shows very well the vicissitudes of sublunary things.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

And here was little Ledbury, quaint withal,   The forest felled, her lair and sheltering place She long time left in age pathetical.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow