#914. Pity.—N. pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of
compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning,
forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c. (lenity) 740;
charity, ruth, long- suffering. melting mood; argumentum ad
misericordiam[Lat], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae[Lat].
sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher. V. pity;
have pity, show pity, take pity &c. n.; commiserate, compassionate;
condole &c. 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 grace,
put out of one's misery. raise pity, excite pity &c. n..; touch,
soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm. ask for mercy &c. v.;
supplicate &c. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel;
deprecate. Adj. pitying &c. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic,
touched. merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c.
(philanthropic) 910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken;
soft, soft hearted; unhardened[obs3]; lenient &c. 740; exorable[obs3],
forbearing; melting &c. v.; weak. Int. 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]. Phr. 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[Garrick][It].
#914a. Pitilessness.—N. pitilessness &c. adj.; inclemency; severity
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&c. 739; malevolence &c. 907.
V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c. 914; give no
quarter.
Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying,
unmerciful,
inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate[obs3],
uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh &c. 739; unrelenting &c. 919.
#915. Condolence.—N. condolence; lamentation &c. 839; sympathy,
consolation. V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify
pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament &c. 839 with;
express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common
with; share one's sorrow.