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1. A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
   "the blind are too often objects of ruth";
   - commiseration, pity, pathos

1. United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
   - Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat
    
2. 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
   - Book of Ruth
    
3. The great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament

Derived forms: ruths

Type of: ballplayer, baseball player, book, fellow feeling, married woman, sympathy, wife, wifey [informal]

Part of: Hagiographa, Ketubim, Ketuvim, Old Testament, Writings

Encyclopedia: Ruth, North Carolina