Crossword clues for ruth
ruth
- One of Cooperstown's inaugural class
- Immortal slugger
- He hit 714 homers
- Famous Yankee
- Court colleague of Sonia and Elena
- Colleague of Elena and Antonin
- Baseball's "Bambino"
- Appointee after Clarence
- "Loving" actress Negga
- 'Sultan of Swat'
- Yankee Stadium's "builder"
- Yankee #3
- Whodunit maven Rendell
- Trading him started an 84-year "curse"
- The "R" of the Supreme Court's R.B.G
- The "R" of R.B.G
- The "R" of "Notorious R.B.G."
- The "R" in the Notorious RBG
- Supreme Court Justice Bader Ginsburg
- Singer Etting
- Roman or Draper
- Rendell of whodunits
- Red Sox pitcher and Yankee slugger
- Pitcher-turned-slugger Babe
- Pianist Laredo
- Oscar-nominated "Loving" actress Negga
- One of Cooperstown's "First Class"
- One of Bill's Supreme Court nominees
- Obed's mother, in the Bible
- Naomi's helpmate
- Name after Babe or Baby
- Miss Etting
- Legendary Babe
- It includes Naomi's story
- He's second to Aaron in career RBIs
- He wore #3 for the Yankees
- Great-grandmother of David
- George Herman
- Former Supreme Court first name
- Food critic Reichl
- Follower of Babe or Baby
- First-year Cooperstown inductee
- First club member
- Female name of a Biblical book
- English novelist Rendell
- Elena's colleague on the court
- Elena's colleague
- Dr. who wrote "Sex for Dummies"
- Costume designer ___ E. Carter
- Comic Buzzi
- Colleague of Elena and Sonia
- Colleague of Clarence and Sonia
- Colleague of Antonin
- Cohort of Elena and Sonia
- Byron's Supreme Court successor
- Byron's successor on the Supreme Court
- Buzzi of ''Laugh-In''
- Book in the Bible
- Bill's first Supreme Court appointee
- Biblical daughter-in-law
- Batting Babe
- Baseball's all-time leader in slugging average
- Baseball's "greatest drawing card"
- Baseball legend Babe
- Baseball Babe
- Baby or Babe
- Babe who's famous
- Babe who was known as "The Sultan of Swat"
- Babe the slugger
- Babe or Baby
- Babe often seen running home?
- Babe from Baltimore
- Babe born in Baltimore
- Babe ____
- All-time slugging percentage leader
- All-time leader in slugging percentage
- Actress Wilson of "The Affair"
- Actress Roman
- Actress Negga of "Loving"
- Actress Gordon
- 1923 A.L. M.V.P
- "The Book of __": Jane Hamilton novel
- "The Bambino" of baseball
- "The Babe"
- "Loving" star Negga
- "Babe" or "Baby" follower
- -- Bader Ginsburg
- ___ Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court
- ___ Bader Ginsburg
- __ Bader Ginsburg
- Compassion for the misery of others
- Wife of Boaz
- The Bambino
- Gordon or Ginsburg
- Judges' successor
- Diamond great
- Dr. Westheimer
- Babe's name
- < Player with this retired number
- Legendary Yankee
- Baseball's Bambino
- Bride of Boaz
- It begins "In the days when the judges ruled..."
- See 49-Down
- Buzzi of "Laugh-In"
- It begins with the story of Naomi
- OUTFIELDER
- Book after Judges
- Ancestress of King David
- Book named for a woman
- Baby ___ (Nestlé candy bar)
- Slugger called the Sultan of Swat
- Crime novelist Rendell
- Whence the line "Whither thou goest, I will go"
- Justice ___ Bader Ginsburg
- 1923 A.L. M.V.P.
- Babe with a bat
- Gordon of "Harold and Maude"
- Hitter of 714 home runs
- See 1-Across
- First name on the Supreme Court
- Book that begins "In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land"
- "Whither thou goest, I will go" speaker
- I Samuel preceder
- Legendary #3 on the diamond
- Pity
- American professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
- A book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married and Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
- A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
- The great-grandmother of King David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
- A Roman from Boston
- The Babe
- Mother of Obed
- Biblical book
- Torch-singer Etting
- Actress Gordon: 1896–1985
- Bible book that includes the story of Naomi
- Sultan of Swat
- Baseball legend Babe ___
- Franck oratorio
- Memorable slugger
- Naomi's daughter-in-law
- Boaz's wife
- The Sultan of Swat
- O.T. book
- Buzzi or Roman
- Gordon or Roman
- Baseball great Babe __
- One of Pres. Carter's sisters
- Old Testament book
- "Builder" of Yankee Stadium
- Girl who stood amid the "alien corn"
- Miss St. Denis
- Swat was his sultanate
- Compassion - girl's name
- Woman’s tedious routine held up by husband
- She was Boaz’s wife? Pity
- Book's accuracy needing no introduction
- Book that's brutal, no less
- Book presenting facts: not the first time
- Book in fact unopened
- Girl's name
- Yankee legend
- Member of baseball's All-Century Team
- Babe that's famous
- Supreme Court Justice ___ Bader Ginsburg
- Justice Bader Ginsburg
- Babe of baseball
- "The Sultan of Swat"
- The "R" of RBG
- Teammate of Gehrig
- Novelist Rendell
- Justice appointed after Clarence
- Baseball's Babe
- Barbie doll creator Handler
- American League MVP of 1923
- 'The Sultan of Swat'
- Yankee great
- The legendary Babe
- Sexpert Westheimer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruth \Ruth\ (r[udd]th), n. [From Rue, v.: cf. Icel. hrygg[eth], hryg[eth].]
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Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. [Poetic] ``They weep for ruth.''
--Chaucer. ``Have ruth of the poor.''
--Piers Plowman.To stir up gentle ruth, Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth.
--Spenser. -
That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. [Obs.]
It had been hard this ruth for to see.
--Chaucer.With wretched miseries and woeful ruth.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, biblical ancestor of David, from Hebrew Ruth, probably a contraction of reuth "companion, friend, fellow woman."
"sorrow for the misery of another; repentance, regret," c.1200, ruthe, from Old Norse hryggð "ruth, sorrow," from hryggr "sorrowful, grieved" (see rue (v.)) + Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)). Or else formed in English from reuwen "to rue" on the model of true/truth, etc. The Old English word was rue (n.2).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy. (from 13th c.) 2 (context now rare English) repentance; regret; remorse. (from 13th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) sorrow; misery; distress. (13th-17th c.) 4 (context obsolete English) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight. (13th-17th c.)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 155
Land area (2000): 0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58420
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.383224 N, 81.943365 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Wikipedia
Ruth (or its variants) may refer to:
Ruth is an impact crater on Venus. The crater, based on data provided by the Magellan spacecraft, has an estimated diameter of and an elevation of .
Ruth is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in three volumes in 1853.
Ruth is a four-piece Christian indie band from Battle Ground, Washington. Ruth's debut album, Secondhand Dreaming, was released June 26, 2007.
Ruth ( rut, ) is a common female given name noted from Ruth the eponymous heroine of the eighth book of the Old Testament.
Ruth , is the protagonist of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible.
Ruth is the second studio album by American indie folk group Nana Grizol. It was released by Orange Twin on January 10, 2010.
Usage examples of "ruth".
Ruth and the Squire by degrees pleasant homesteads and the great estates which lay outside of the auriferous region.
Grant had told Ruth that she should get off her high horse about not writing autobiographical fiction.
But Ruth had walked to the gate to see if Babbie was coming and, as Maud emerged from the shop, the two women came face to face.
Ruth smoothed the un-smoothable cloth of her bivouac slacks, like a woman not used to being without a skirt.
Bradshaw would be angry, and a storm would arise, from the bare thought of which Ruth shrank with the cowardliness of a person thoroughly worn out with late contest.
Ruth Fawcett, a tray of bowls and appliances in her hands, looked up at him.
Ruth Fawcett looked down at the dying actor and from him to Sonia Fenton, crouched on a chair a little way off.
Ruth Fawcett was surprised by his interest in her, but she remembered that she had always believed actors to be different from ordinary people, and was prepared to make allowances.
Soon Ruth Fawcett was telling him about her work and her training and her childhood and her hobbies and her friends, and in fact everything about herself except her all-consuming love for Mr.
He had had a miserable afternoon watching Ruth Fawcett being entertained during all her free time by Nigel Trent.
Ruth Fawcett had not taken an umbrella with her when she went over to see Matron, because at that time the sun was still shining.
Ruth Fawcett ran rapidly upstairs, locked herself into her bedroom and flung herself upon her bed, crying bitterly.
Nowhere Man, the first book written by Ruth Guck alone, writing as Rebecca York.
Ruth Guck writing as Rebecca York Previous titles by REBECCA YORK Light Street books: Life Line Shattered Vows Whispers in the Night Only Skin Deep Trial by Fire Cradle and All What Child Is This?
Ruth moaned as the wind picked up and started whipping hailstones at us beneath the bleachers.