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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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lament
English
Etymology
From French lamenter, from Latin l?mentor (“I wail, weep”), from l?menta (“wailings, laments, moanings”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /l??m?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
lament (plural laments)
- An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
- A song expressing grief.
Derived terms
- lamentful (rare)
Translations
Verb
lament (third-person singular simple present laments, present participle lamenting, simple past and past participle lamented)
- (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
- Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
- (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laugh'd at follies, one lamented crimes.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
Synonyms
- bewail
Translations
Related terms
Further reading
- lament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lament in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Mantle, manlet, mantel, mantle, mental
French
Verb
lament
- third-person plural present indicative of lamer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of lamer
Anagrams
- mêlant, mental
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