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pity | p |

As a noun pity

is (uncountable) a feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

As a verb pity

is to feel pity for (someone or something).

As an interjection pity

is short form of what a pity.

As a letter p is

the sixteenth letter of the.

As a symbol p is

symbol for phosphorus.

pity

English

Alternative forms

* pitty (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xix. 17
    • He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hehas no more pity in him than a dog.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, p.5:
    • The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offendedis, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty .
  • (countable) Something regrettable.
    • It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
  • * Laurence Sterne
    • It was a thousand pities .
  • * Addison
    • What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
  • (obsolete) piety
    • (Wyclif)

    Synonyms

    * (mercy) ruth * (something regrettable) shame

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel pity for (someone or something).
  • * Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
    • Like as a father pitieth' his children, so the Lord ' pitieth them that fear him.
  • * 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.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

    Interjection

  • Short form of what a pity.

    • Synonyms

    * shame, what a pity, what a shame

    Derived terms

    * piteous * pitiable * pitiful * self-pity * what a pity ----

    p

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=o, next=q, image= (wikipedia p)

    Letter

  • The sixteenth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * With hook: * (wynn) {{Letter , page=P , NATO=Papa , Morse=·––· , Character=P , Braille=? }} Image:Latin P.png, Capital and lowercase versions of P , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter P.png, Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (Voiceless bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiceless bilabial plosive
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