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Definition of ruth
1 : compassion for the misery of another
2 : sorrow for one's own faults : remorse
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Examples of ruth in a Sentence
listening to your flippant comments about the homeless, I wonder if you have any ruth
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Ruths easily identified the obvious parallels between the two films.
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Origin and Etymology of ruth
Middle English ruthe, from ruen to rue
Ruth
playDefinition of Ruth
1 : a Moabite woman who accompanied Naomi to Bethlehem and became the ancestress of David
2 : a short narrative book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scriptures — see bible table
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Ruths easily identified the obvious parallels between the two films.
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Origin and Etymology of ruth
Hebrew Rūth
Ruth
playDefinition of Ruth
George Herman 1895–1948 Babe Ruth or the Babe American baseball player
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