pity

Roget category 914

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.3. Special sympathetic affections

#914. Pity

noun

pity, compassion, commiseration — bowels, of compassion — sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency — leniency etc. (lenity) 740 — charity, ruth, long-suffering.
melting mood — argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae [Lat.].
sympathizer — advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.

verb

pity — have pity, show pity, take pity etc. n. — commiserate, compassionate — condole etc. 915 — sympathize — feel for, be sorry for, yearn for — weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.
forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery.
raise pity, excite pity etc. n. — touch, soften — melt, melt the heart — propitiate, disarm.
ask for mercy etc. v. — supplicate etc. (request) 765 — cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel — deprecate.

adjective

pitying etc. v. — pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.
merciful, clement, ruthful — humane — humanitarian etc. (philanthropic) 910 — tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken — soft, soft hearted — unhardened^† — lenient etc. 740 — exorable^†, forbearing — melting etc. v. — weak.

interjection

for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss! [Lat.]" [Vergil].

phrase

one's heart bleeding for — haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Lat.] [Vergil]; a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind —" onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa [It] [Garrick].

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