Pity definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PITY, n. [The Latin,Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages unite pity and piety in the same word, and the word may ... misery of another; compassion or fellow-suffering. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord. Proverbs 19. In Scripture however, the word pity usually includes compassion accompanied with some act of charity or benevolence, and not simply a fellow feeling of distress. Pity is always painful, yet always agreeable. 2. The ground ...
self-pity definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a feeling ... over your own sufferings Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1621 pity for oneself; especially a self-indulgent dwelling on one's ... pitying adj. self-pityingly adv. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Self-pity is a feeling of unhappiness that you have about yourself ... or greatly exaggerated. Throughout, he showed no trace of self-pity. [disapproval] Moby Thesaurus benevolence, clemency, commiseration, compassion, condolence, favor, feeling ... forbearance, forgiveness, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, mitigation, pardon, pathos, pity, quarter, relief, reprieve, ruth, sympathy
... of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Compassion is a mixed passion, compounded of love and ... neck, and kissed him. Luke 15. COMPASSION, v.t. To pity. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a deep awareness ... others and wanting to do something about it [syn: compassion, pity] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ... distress together with a desire to alleviate it Synonyms: see pity • compassionless adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. pity inclining one to help or be merciful. Etymology: ME f ... s 1913 Dictionary Compassion Com*pas"sion, v. t. To pity. [Obs.] --Shak. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Compassion Com*pas" ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary COMMISERATE, v.t. 1. To pity; to compassionate; to feel sorrow, pain or regret for another ... weight of age, disease or want. 2. To regret; to pity; to be sorry for; as, to commiserate our mutual ignorance ... Latin commiseratus, past participle of commiserari, from com- + miserari to pity, from miser wretched Date: 1594 intransitive verb to feel or ... v. 1 intr. (usu. foll. by with) express or feel pity. 2 tr. archaic express or feel pity for (commiserate you on your loss). Derivatives: commiseration n. commiserative adj. commiserator n. Etymology: L commiserari (as COM-, miserari pity f. miser wretched) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Commiserate Com* ...
... 1828 Dictionary COMPASSIONATE, a. Having a temper or disposition to pity; inclined to show mercy; merciful; having a heart that is ... was not also tender and compassionate. COMPASSIONATE, v.t. To pity; to commiserate; to have compassion for. Compassionates my pains and ... uncompassionate] v 1: share the suffering of [syn: feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with] Merriam Webster's I. adjective ... adverb • compassionateness noun II. transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Date: 1592 pity Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. sympathetic, pitying. Phrases and idioms: compassionate ... Derivatives: compassionately adv. Etymology: obs. F compassioné f. compassioner feel pity (as COMPASSION) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Compassionate Com*pas"sion*ate, a. 1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great ...
Piteous definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PIT'EOUS, a. [See Pity.] Sorrowful; mournful; that may excite pity; as a piteous look. 1. Wretched; miserable; deserving compassion; as a piteous condition. 2. Compassionate; affected by pity. 3. Pitiful; paltry; poor; as piteous amends. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room ... adjective Date: 14th century of a kind to move to pity or compassion • piteously adverb • piteousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. deserving or causing pity; wretched. Derivatives: piteously adv. piteousness n. Etymology: ME pito( ...
Pitiful definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PIT'IFUL, a. [See Pity.] Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a heart to feel sorrow and sympathy ... r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition ... deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry] 3: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room ... Webster's adjective Date: 14th century 1. archaic full of pity ; compassionate 2. a. deserving or arousing pity or commiseration b. exciting pitying contempt (as by meanness ...
... nearest to it is grace. It implies benevolence, tenderness, mildness, pity or compassion, and clemency, but exercised only towards offenders. Mercy ... of the least of all thy mercies. Genesis 32. 3. Pity; compassion manifested towards a person in distress. And he said ... mercy. 4 (attrib.) administered or performed out of mercy or pity for a suffering person (mercy killing). 5 something to be ... f. OF merci f. L merces -edis reward, in LL pity, thanks Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mercy Mer"cy, n.; pl ... L. merces, mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is prob? akin to merere to deserve ... Luke x. 37. 3. Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help. In whom ...
Pitiable definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PIT'IABLE, a. Deserving pity; worthy of compassion; miserable; as pitiable persons; a pitiable condition ... r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition ... of cowardice" [syn: pathetic, pitiable, pitiful] 2: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room ... Webster's adjective Date: 15th century 1. deserving or exciting pity ; lamentable < pitiable victims > 2. of a kind to evoke mingled pity and contempt especially because of inadequacy < a pitiable excuse > Synonyms ... pitiably adverb Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 deserving or causing pity. 2 contemptible. Derivatives: pitiableness n. pitiably adv. Etymology: ME ...
... 0 (2005) n 1: a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their ... misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos] 3: a style that has the power to ... 1. an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion 2. an emotion of sympathetic pity Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a quality in speech, writing, events, etc., that excites pity or sadness. Etymology: Gk pathos suffering, rel. to paskho ...
Pities definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pity 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 ... 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 ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PIT'ILESS, a. Destitute of pity; hardhearted; applied to persons; as a pitiless master. 1. Exciting no pity; as a pitiless state. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty ... unkind] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 15th century devoid of pity ; harsh, cruel • pitilessly adverb • pitilessness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. showing no pity (the pitiless heat of the desert). Derivatives: pitilessly adv. pitilessness ... 1913 Dictionary Pitiless Pit"i*less, a. 1. Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements. 2. ...
... energy to one another through some medium Synonyms: see attraction, pity Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -ies) 1 a the state ... between them. 3. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion. I value myself upon sympathy, I hate and ... The adverb has most sympathy with the verb. --Earle. Syn: Pity; fellow-feeling; compassion; commiseration; tenderness; condolence; agreement. Usage: Sympathy, Commiseration ... to himself, were there no sympathy among individuals.'' --South. See Pity. Fault, Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration. --Milton. Collin ... pre-established harmony, congeniality, concord, concert. 3. Compassion, commiseration, condolence, pity, tenderness, kindliness, fellow-feeling, bowels of compassion. 4. Mutual influence ... partiality, passibility, passions, pathos, patronage, peace, penchant, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, pity, predilection, preference, prickliness, proclivity, propensity, propinquity, proximity, pull, pulling ...
... Gr. passion; to suffer.] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song ... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room ... piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched] 2: inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" [syn: pathetic, pitiable, pitiful] 3: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially ... a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity 2. marked by sorrow or melancholy ; sad 3. pitifully inferior ... pathetical adjective • pathetically adverb Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 arousing pity or sadness or contempt. 2 Brit. colloq. miserably inadequate. ...
... Webster's 1828 Dictionary RUTH, n. [from rue.] 1. Mercy; pity; tenderness; sorrow for the misery of another Obs. 2. Misery ... misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos] 4: a book of the Old Testament that ... S. Geden Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Mercy, pity, compassion, tenderness. Moby Thesaurus attrition, benevolence, clemency, commiseration, compassion, compunction ... grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, mitigation, pardon, pathos, penance, penitently, pity, quarter, relief, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, reprieve, rue, self-pity, sympathy