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pity

English

Alternative forms

  • pittie, pitty, pitie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pitye, pitie, pittye, pitee, pite, from Anglo-Norman pité, pittee etc., from Old French pitet, pitié, from Latin piet?s. See also the doublets pietà and piety.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?ti/
  • Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

pity (countable and uncountable, plural pities)

  1. (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
    • He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
    • , Folio Society, 2006, p.5:
      The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offended [] is, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty.
  2. (countable) Something regrettable.
    • It was a thousand pities.
    • What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
  3. (obsolete) Piety.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

Synonyms

  • (mercy): ruth
  • (something regrettable): shame

Translations

Verb

pity (third-person singular simple present pities, present participle pitying, simple past and past participle pitied)

  1. (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something). [from 15th c.]
    • Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
  2. (transitive, now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of. [from 16th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.11:
      She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.
    • a. 1681, Richard Allestree, Of Gods Method in giving Deliverance
      It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

Translations

Interjection

pity!

  1. Short form of what a pity.

Synonyms

  • shame, what a pity, what a shame

Translations

Derived terms


Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?p?t?]

Verb

pity

  1. inflection of pít:
    1. inanimate masculine plural passive participle
    2. feminine plural passive participle

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?it?/

Participle

pity

  1. past passive participle of pi?

Declension


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?i.t?/

Participle

pity

  1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of pi?

Declension

Noun

pity f

  1. inflection of pita:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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enthusiasm

English

Etymology

First attested from 1603, from Middle French enthousiasme, from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (enthousiasmós), from ?? (en, in) + ???? (theós, god) + ????? (ousía, essence).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n??ju?z?æz(?)m/, /?n-/
  • (yod dropping) IPA(key): /-?u?-/

Noun

enthusiasm (countable and uncountable, plural enthusiasms)

  1. (obsolete or historical) Possession by a god; divine inspiration or frenzy.
  2. Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness.
  3. Something in which one is keenly interested.
    • 1968, Central States Archaeological Journal (volumes 15-16, page 154)
      My main enthusiasm is attending and seeing the progress and interest of collectors, to meet old friends, and hopefully to make new friends.

Related terms

  • enthuse
  • enthusiast
  • enthusiastic
  • enthusiastically

Translations

Anagrams

  • Shunamites

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