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Pity
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Pity
Pity originally means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and was once used in a comparable sense to the more modern words "sympathy" and "empathy". Through insincere usage, it now has more unsympathetic connotations of feelings of superiority or condescension. == Histor... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pity
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[n] - an unfortunate development Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=pity
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Pit'y noun ; plural Pities . [ Middle English pite , Old French pité , pitié , French pitié , Latin pietas piety, kindness, pity. See Pious , and confer Piety .] 1. Piety. [ ... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/97
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Pit'y transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pitied ; present participle & verbal noun Pitying .] 1. To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; ... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/97
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Pit'y intransitive verb To be compassionate; to show pity. « I will not pity , nor spare, nor have mercy.» Jer. xiii. 14. Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/97
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shame noun an unfortunate development; `it`s a pity he couldn`t do it` Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pity
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• (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 ten... Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/pity/
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(from the article `emotion`) ...shown that different patterns of causal attribution are associated with different emotions, including anger, guilt, shame, and the more complex ... Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/74
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A more or less condescending feeling for other living beings in their suffering or lowly condition, condoned by those who hold to the inevitability of class differences, but condemned by those who believe in melioration or the establishment of more equitable relations and therefore substitute sympat... Found op http://www.ditext.com/runes/p.html
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[William Blake] Pity (c. 1795) is a colour print on paper, finished in ink and watercolor, by English artist and poet William Blake. Along with his other works of this period, it was influenced by the Bible, Milton, and Shakespeare. In this work, the inspiration came from Macbeth, especially... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pity_(William_Blake)
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1) 'that's rough' 2) 'what a shame' 3) A woman's ... often opens the door to love henry ward beecher 4) An unfortunate development 5) Bleed for 6) Bowels 7) Charity 8) Clemency 9) Commiseration 10) Compassion 11) Compassion... Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/pity/1
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