Definition of "ruthfulness" []

• A state of gloomy sorrow (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Caesar, he felt and pitied the sorrows of the world, and he succeeded in expressing the pity and repentance, the ruthfulness for and piety towards the past, which were astir in the spirits of his generation."
• "Guido, but my gladness had been mingled with ruthfulness and regret."