About The Word Pity
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What's The Definition Of Pity?
[n] the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
[n] an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it" [n] a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [v] share the suffering of Synonyms | Synonyms for Pity: commiseration | compassion | compassionate | condole with | feel for | pathos | ruth | shame | sympathize with Related Terms | Find terms related to Pity: abomination | acceptance | ache | atrocity | be sorry for | bleed | bleed for | chanty | clemency | clementness | commiserate | commiseration | compassion | compassionate | condole with | condolence | crime | dejection | desecration | disgrace | distress | easiness | easygoingness | feel | feel for | feel sorrow for | feel sorry for | forbearance | forbearing | gentleness | humaneness | humanity | ignominy | infamy | lament for | laxness | lenience | leniency | lenientness | lenity | melancholy | mercifulness | mercy | mildness | misfortune | moderateness | patience | profanation | rue | ruth | sacrilege | sadness | scandal | shame | sin | softness | sorrow | sympathize | sympathize with | sympathy | tenderness | terrible thing | tolerance | violation | weep for See Also | bad luck | care | commiserate | fellow feeling | grieve | mercifulness | mercy | misfortune | sorrow | sympathise | sympathize | sympathy Pity In Webster's Dictionary \Pit"y\, n.; pl. {Pities}. [OE. pite, OF. pit['e],
piti['e], F. piti['e], L. pietas piety, kindness, pity. See
{Pious}, and cf. {Piety}.]
1. Piety. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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. --Prov. xix.
17.
He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. --Shak.
3. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be
regretted. ``The more the pity.'' --Shak.
What pity is it That we can die but once to serve
our country! --Addison.
Note: In this sense, sometimes used in the plural, especially
in the colloquialism: ``It is a thousand pities.''
Syn: 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.
\Pit"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --Ps. ciii. 13. 2. To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] It pitieth them to see her in the dust. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. \Pit"y\, v. i. To be compassionate; to show pity. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. --Jer. xiii. 14. |
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