Her face hardened.
"I despise pity."
"In spite of your name? Ruth is your name, isn't it? Piquant that. Ruth the ruthless."

He pictured the woman as dark and Biblical, because of her name: Ruth. Shadowed eyes and creamy skin. Torrents of loose black hair.

2011, Turisas (Mathias Nygård), Hunting Pirates
Scum they are! —Foe of mankind!
Clear the sea! —Show no ruth!

1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLIV, 2005, The Works of A. E. Housman [1994, The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman], page 61,
Now to your grave shall friend and stranger
With ruth and some with envy come […].

~1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
He mourned too late
In ruth for the rending of the Round Table.

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