Pity
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| #: ''It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.'' | #: ''It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.'' | ||
| - | #: '' 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'' — title of novel by [[w:John Ford (dramatist)|John Ford]] | + | #: '' [['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]'' — title of novel by [[John Ford (dramatist)|John Ford]] |
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- A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, p. 5:
- (countable but not used in the plural) Something regrettable.
- It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore — title of novel by John Ford
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