Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pitying"
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) 1.7 (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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