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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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I read without alarm the pathetical hints of your sad plight in the German labyrinth.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

She spake in that pathetical and heavenly manner that Mrs. Bargrave wept several times, she was so deeply affected with it.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

She spake in that pathetical and heavenly manner, that Mrs. Bargrave wept several times, she was so deeply affected with it.

From A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal The Next Day after Her Death, to one Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705; which Apparition Recommends the Perusal of Drelincourt's Book of Consolations against the Fears of Death by Defoe, Daniel

We both of us grew rather pathetical on leaving our Sienese villa, and shrank from parting with the pig.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

And yet I am not unmindful of several excellent pathetical Passages in both those immortal Poems.

From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph