- (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
- (n.) Piety.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.
- (v.t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
- (n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief or regret; a thing to be regretted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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