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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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witty
English
Etymology
From Middle English witty, witti, from Old English witti? (“clever, wise”), equivalent to wit +? -y,See Norwegian Bokmål vettig.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /?w?ti/, [?w??i]
- Rhymes: -?ti
Adjective
witty (comparative wittier, superlative wittiest)
- (obsolete) Wise, having good judgement.
- Then cam there a lady that was a wytty lady, and she seyde playnly unto the Kyng […] that he sholde never be hole but yf that Sir Trystrames wente into the same contrey than the venym came fro, and in that contrey sholde he be holpyn, other ellys never.
- (archaic) Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious.
- Clever; amusingly ingenious.
- Full of wit.
- Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.
Synonyms
- facetious
- humorous
- jocose
- jocular
- quick
- lively
- See also Thesaurus:witty
Translations
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