Crossword clues for pitying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pity \Pit"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitied; p. pr. & vb. n. Pitying.]
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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.
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To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.]
It pitieth them to see her in the dust.
--Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Pitying \Pit"y*ing\, a. Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word. -- Pit"y*ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who pities. vb. (present participle of pity English)
WordNet
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)]
Usage examples of "pitying".
I still had a great love for her in spite of my daily infidelities, and when I thought of those moments in which I had seen her given over to voluptuousness I could not help pitying her fate as I thought of the days of despair in store for her.
I could not help pitying her, and yet I could not forgive her for consenting to be of a party which she knew she must spoil by her morose behaviour.
I thought him something like what I had been fifteen years ago, but as it seemed unlikely that he had my resources I could not help pitying him.
Sighs in the ear of stillness, art thou aught but Lulling the slaves of interest to repose With that mild, pitying gaze?
It was thus I left Martorano sixty hours after my arrival, pitying the bishop whom I was leaving behind, and who wept as he was pouring heartfelt blessings upon me.
Without uttering a complaint, he calmly followed the executioner, pitying his unhappy mistress, and bestowing comfort on his afflicted friends.
I have initiated her in the sweetest of mysteries, and now, instead of pitying me, she must envy me.
The poor child stopped at once, ran back to me in great fright, and, pitying me, she assisted me to raise myself from the ground.
Phillips -for it was he -looked upon her in the most tender and pitying manner.
His soul had wedded Wisdom, and her dower Is love and justice, clothed in which he sate Apart from men, as in a lonely tower, Pitying the tumult of their dark estate.
Oh visit me but once, but pitying shed One drop of balm upon my withered soul.
Poor Danglars looked so crestfallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.
Poor Danglars looked so crest-fallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.
The mask of his poor ugly face, which had been grotesque with pitying lines, became smooth.
So forlorn and bedraggled did she appear, like some wretched old hen not worth the killing,, that Maia could not help pitying her.