PITY
\pˈɪti], \pˈɪti], \p_ˈɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of PITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Piety.
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A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
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A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
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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.
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To be compassionate; to show pity.
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To move to pity; - used impersonally.
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Piety.
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A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
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A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
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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.
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To be compassionate; to show pity.
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To move to pity; - used impersonally.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Sympathy with misery or pain; compassion; subject of pity; matter of regret.
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To have sympathy for; to commiserate.
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To be compassionate.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Compassion or sorrow excited by the distress or sufferings of another; fellow suffering or feeling; compassion accompanied with some act of charity; sympathy; a thing to be regretted; a thing to be looked upon as a misfortune, as, “the more is the pityâ€; used in the plu., as, “it is a thousand pities, that is, it is a thing to be very much regretted.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, Italian, Latin] The feeling or suffering of one person excited by the distresses of another;—cause of grief; thing to be regretted;—a call for pity; compassion; commiseration; condolence; sympathy; fellows offering; fellow-feeling.
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