All 3 Uses of
pathetic
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- His outlook upon time was as a transient flash of the eye now and then: that projection of consciousness into days gone by and to come, which makes the past a synonym for the pathetic and the future a word for circumspection, was foreign to Troy.†
Chpt 25-27
- These somewhat pathetic evidences of a mind crazed with care and love were the subject of discourse in Warren's malt-house when Oak entered from Casterbridge with tidings of sentence.†
Chpt 55-57
- "I shall not be your mistress much longer, shall I Gabriel?" she said, in pathetic tones.†
Chpt 55-57 *
Definition:
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(pathetic as in: Her pathetic look saddened us.) pitiful (arousing pity)