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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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