Pity: alternatives and connections

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.

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To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

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Alt. of Greeve

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Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adver…

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Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

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The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief a…

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Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if…

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Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

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Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

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Pious; devout.

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Pious; devout.

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The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.

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Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

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Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

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That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as p…

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Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

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A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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