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 grâce, 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†; lenient &c 740; exorable†, 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 [It] [Garrick].
914a. Pitilessness — N. pitilessness &c adj.; inclemency; severity &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†, uncompassionate;
inexorable; harsh &c 739; unrelenting &c 919.