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pitying |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitying \Pit"y*ing\, a. Expressing pity; as a pitying eye, glance, or word -- {Pit"y*ing*ly}, adv From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pity \Pit"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitied}; p. pr & vb n. {Pitying}.] 1. To feel pity or compassion for to have sympathy with to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him --Ps. ciii. 13. 2. To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] It pitieth them to see her in the dust. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pitying adj : feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders"; "let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey [syn: {sorry}, {sorry for(p)}]
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