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Pity   /pˈɪti/   Listen
noun
Pity  n.  (pl. pities)  
1.
Piety. (Obs.)
2.
A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration. "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord." "He... has no more pity in him than a dog."
3.
A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted. "The more the pity." "What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!" Note: In this sense, sometimes used in the plural, especially in the colloquialism: "It is a thousand pities."
Synonyms: Compassion; mercy; commiseration; condolence; sympathy, fellow-suffering; fellow-feeling. Pity, Sympathy, Compassion. Sympathy is literally fellow-feeling, and therefore requiers a certain degree of equality in situation, circumstances, etc., to its fullest exercise. Compassion is deep tenderness for another under severe or inevitable misfortune. Pity regards its object not only as suffering, but weak, and hence as inferior.


verb
Pity  v. t.  (past & past part. pitied; pres. part. pitying)  
1.
To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him."
2.
To move to pity; used impersonally. (Obs.) "It pitieth them to see her in the dust."


Pity  v. i.  To be compassionate; to show pity. "I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy."





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"Pity" Quotes from Famous Books



... during his walk from Drumsna, had made up his mind exactly as to what he would say on seeing Thady; how he would mix pity with condolence; how he would use such words as might strengthen him in his determination to bear his sufferings with resignation; how he would teach him to forget the present in the thoughts of his future prospects. But ...
— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope
... Juliet. Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? O, sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week; Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim ...
— Romeo and Juliet • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... Leonard," continued Basil; "what a pity the church-yard is locked up. We could spend the time so delightfully in it. But, never mind; let us go down to the Battery,—it 's not a very pleasant place, but it's near, and it's historical, and it's open,—where these ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... to hear him hiss "Viper!" between his teeth, as characters in melodramatic serials do to perfection, their front teeth having doubtless been designed for such purposes. But his look seemed to denote pity rather than hatred. So might a prison-warder regard a condemned man, in coming to ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... a deprecatory gesture. "Why, yes," he said. "It would seem a pity that a crook cute enough to turn a trick as neat as that should have got nothing for his pains but a velvet-lined leather case, worth perhaps a dollar and a half—or say two dollars at the outside, if you make a point ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance


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