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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section III. Sympathetic Affections |
| 3. Special Sympathetic Affections |
| 914. Pity. |
| NOUN: | PITY, compassion, commiseration; bowels, - of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, soft-heartedness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency (lenity) [See Lenity]; exorability, exorableness; charity, ruth, long-suffering. melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [L.]; quarter, grace, locus pænitentiæ [L.]. SYMPATHIZER; advocate, friend, par- tisan, patron, wellwisher, defender, champion. |
| VERB: | PITY; have -, show -, take- pity &c. n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole [See Condolence]; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn over; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [L.]; give a coup de grâce [F.], put out of one’s misery; be cruel to be kind. RAISE or EXCITE PITY &c. n.; touch, soften, melt, melt the heart; appeal, - to one’s better feelings; propitiate, disarm. SUPPLICATE (request) [See Request]; ask for mercy &c. n.; cry for quarter, beg one’s life, kneel; deprecate. |
| ADJECTIVE: | PITYING &c. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched. merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian (philanthropic) [See Philanthropy]; tender, tender-hearted; soft, soft-hearted; unhardened; lenient [See Lenity]; exorable, forbearing; melting &c. v.; weak. |
| INTERJECTION: | for pity’s sake! mercy! have -, cry you- mercy! God help you! poor -thing, - dear, - fellow! woe betide! quis talia fando temperet a lachrymis! [Vergil]. |
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