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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)
- (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.
- (countable) Something regrettable.
- It was a thousand pities.
- What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
- (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)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.11:
Translations
Interjection
pity!
- 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
- inflection of pít:
- inanimate masculine plural passive participle
- feminine plural passive participle
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?it?/
Participle
pity
- past passive participle of pi?
Declension
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?i.t?/
Participle
pity
- masculine singular passive adjectival participle of pi?
Declension
Noun
pity f
- inflection of pita:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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jealous
English
Etymology
[1382] From Middle English jelous, gelous, gelus, from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelosus, from Ancient Greek ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Doublet of zealous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??l?s/
- Hyphenation: jeal?ous
- Rhymes: -?l?s
Adjective
jealous (comparative jealouser or more jealous, superlative jealousest or most jealous)
- Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity. [from 13th c.]
- Protective, zealously guarding, careful in the protection of something one has or appreciates. [from 14th c.]
- For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jehovah, is a jealous God. —Exodus 34:14 (NET)
- Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise. [from 14th c.]
- Suspecting, suspicious.
Usage notes
Some usage guides seek to distinguish "jealous" from “envious”, using jealous to mean “protective of one’s own position or possessions” – one “jealously guards what one has” – and envious to mean “desirous of others’ position or possessions” – one “envies what others have”. This distinction is also maintained in the psychological and philosophical literature. However, this distinction is not always reflected in usage, as reflected in the quotations of famous authors (above) using the word jealous in the sense “envious (of the possessions of others)”.
Derived terms
- jealous-like adjective
- jealously adverb
- jealousy noun
- jealousness noun
Related terms
- zeal
- zealot
- zealous
Translations
References
Anagrams
- jalouse
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