Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section III. Sympathetic Affections
3. Special Sympathetic Affections

914. Pity.

   NOUN:PITY, compassion, commiseration; bowels, – of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, soft-heartedness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency (lenity) [See Lenity]; exorability, exorableness; charity, ruth, long-suffering.
  melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [L.]; quarter, grace, locus pænitentiæ [L.].
  SYMPATHIZER; advocate, friend, par- tisan, patron, wellwisher, defender, champion.
   VERB:PITY; have -, show -, take- pity &c. n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole [See Condolence]; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn over; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.
  forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [L.]; give a coup de grâce [F.], put out of one’s misery; be cruel to be kind.
  RAISE or EXCITE PITY &c. n.; touch, soften, melt, melt the heart; appeal, – to one’s better feelings; propitiate, disarm.
  SUPPLICATE (request) [See Request]; ask for mercy &c. n.; cry for quarter, beg one’s life, kneel; deprecate.
   ADJECTIVE:PITYING &c. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.
  merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian (philanthropic) [See Philanthropy]; tender, tender-hearted; soft, soft-hearted; unhardened; lenient [See Lenity]; exorable, forbearing; melting &c. v.; weak.
   INTERJECTION:for pity’s sake! mercy! have -, cry you- mercy! God help you! poor -thing, – dear, – fellow! woe betide! quis talia fando temperet a lachrymis! [Vergil].    QUOTATIONS:

1. One’s heart bleeding for.
2. Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.—Vergil
3. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.—Garrick
4. Onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.
5. Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them.—Goldsmith