pity

[Pit·y]

If you feel pity, you feel sympathy for someone else's suffering. A documentary on prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted might make you feel pity for them.

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Piety.

Noun
the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

Noun
an unfortunate development; "it''s a pity he couldn''t do it"

Noun
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"

Verb
share the suffering of

n.
Piety.

n.
A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.

n.
A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To move to pity; -- used impersonally.

v. i.
To be compassionate; to show pity.

Pity

Pit"y , n.; pl. Pities . [OE. pite, OF. pit'82, piti'82, F. piti'82, 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.

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." Shak.

What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

&hand; 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.

Pity

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.

2. To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.]

It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

Pity

Pit"y, v. i. To be compassionate; to show pity.

I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy.

Piety.

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.

To be compassionate; to show pity.

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Usage Examples

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

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Other Usage Examples

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.