ruth

6 definitions found

ruth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ruth \Ruth\ (r[udd]th), n. [From Rue, v.: cf. Icel.
     hrygg[eth], hryg[eth].]
     1. Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
        [Poetic] "They weep for ruth." --Chaucer. "Have ruth of
        the poor." --Piers Plowman.
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              To stir up gentle ruth,
              Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a
        pitiful sight. [Obs.]
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              It had been hard this ruth for to see. --Chaucer.
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              With wretched miseries and woeful ruth. --Spenser.
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ruth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Ruth
      n 1: United States professional baseball player famous for
           hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth,
           George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat]
      2: the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in
         the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
      3: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
         others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn:
         commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]
      4: a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who
         was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who
         stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
         [syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth]

ruth - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  RUTH
  
     D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University.  Real-time language
     based on LispKit.  Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.
  
     ["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming",
     D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages
     Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].
  

ruth - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Ruth
  a friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father,
  Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of
  Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law,
  who refused to leave her, to Bethlehem, the old home from which
  Elimelech had migrated. There she had a rich relative, Boaz, to
  whom Ruth was eventually married. She became the mother of Obed,
  the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is among the
  maternal progenitors of our Lord (Matt. 1:5). The story of "the
  gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the good
  Boaz and his reapers, the Jewish land system, the method of
  transferring property from one person to another, the working of
  the Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families;
  but, above all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love,
  the unshaken trustfulness of her who, though not of the chosen
  race, was, like the Canaanitess Tamar (Gen. 38:29; Matt. 1:3)
  and the Canaanitess Rahab (Matt. 1:5), privileged to become the
  ancestress of David, and so of 'great David's greater Son'"
  (Ruth 4:18-22).

ruth - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Ruth, CA
    Zip code(s): 95526
  Ruth, MI
    Zip code(s): 48470
  Ruth, MS
    Zip code(s): 39662
  Ruth, NC (town, FIPS 58420)
    Location: 35.38373 N, 81.94541 W
    Population (1990): 366 (147 housing units)
    Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

ruth - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruth":
     attrition, benevolence, clemency, commiseration, compassion,
     compunction, condolence, contrition, favor, feeling, forbearance,
     forgiveness, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy,
     mitigation, pardon, pathos, penance, penitently, pity, quarter,
     relief, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, reprieve, rue,
     self-pity, sympathy