Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pity
Participle: pitied
Gerund: pitying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pity |
| you | pity |
| he;she;it | pities |
| we | pity |
| you | pity |
| they | pity |
Perfect
| I | have pitied |
| you | have pitied |
| he;she;it | has pitied |
| we | have pitied |
| you | have pitied |
| they | have pitied |
Past
| I | pitied |
| you | pitied |
| he;she;it | pitied |
| we | pitied |
| you | pitied |
| they | pitied |
Pluperfect
| I | had pitied |
| you | had pitied |
| he;she;it | had pitied |
| we | had pitied |
| you | had pitied |
| they | had pitied |
Future
| I | will pity |
| you | will pity |
| he;she;it | will pity |
| we | will pity |
| you | will pity |
| they | will pity |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pitied |
| you | will have pitied |
| he;she;it | will have pitied |
| we | will have pitied |
| you | will have pitied |
| they | will have pitied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pity |
| you | pity |
| he;she;it | pity |
| we | pity |
| you | pity |
| they | pity |
Perfect
| I | have pitied |
| you | have pitied |
| he;she;it | have pitied |
| we | have pitied |
| you | have pitied |
| they | have pitied |
Imperfect
| I | pitied |
| you | pitied |
| he;she;it | pitied |
| we | pitied |
| you | pitied |
| they | pitied |
Pluperfect
| I | had pitied |
| you | had pitied |
| he;she;it | had pitied |
| we | had pitied |
| you | had pitied |
| they | had pitied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pity |
| you | would pity |
| he;she;it | would pity |
| we | would pity |
| you | would pity |
| they | would pity |
Perfect
| I | would have pitied |
| you | would have pitied |
| he;she;it | would have pitied |
| we | would have pitied |
| you | would have pitied |
| they | would have pitied |
Imperative
| you | pity |
| we | Let's pity |
| you | pity |
Verbs conjugated like 'pity'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pity'
pit,
pith,
bepity,
bit,
bite,
bitt,
bivy,
cite,
dirty,
dit,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1225, from O.Fr. pite, pitet (11c., Mod.Fr. pitié), from L. pietatem (nom. pietas) "piety, affection, duty," in L.L. "gentleness, kindness, pity," from pius (see pious). Replaced O.E. mildheortness, lit. "mild-heartness," itself a loan-translation of L. misericordia. Eng. pity and piety were not fully distinguished until 17c. The verb meaning "to feel pity for" is attested from 1529. Pitiful is c.1303 in sense of "compassionate" (implied in pitifully); c.1460 in sense of "exciting or deserving pity;" 1582 in sense of "mean, wretched, contemptible."
2. From Middle English pitye, pitie, pittye, pitee, pite, from Anglo-Norman pité, pittee etc., from Old French pitet, pitié, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and piety.
Sample Sentences
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Mr. Wilson's mind was one of those that may not unaptly be represented by a bale of cotton,—downy, soft, benevolently fuzzy and confused. He really pitied George with all his heart, and had a sort of dim and cloudy perception of the style of feeling that agitated him; but he deemed it his duty to go on talking _good_ to him, with infinite pertinacity.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Tom drew near, and tried to say something; but she only groaned. Honestly, and with tears running down his own cheeks, he spoke of a heart of love in the skies, of a pitying Jesus, and an eternal home; but the ear was deaf with anguish, and the palsied heart could not feel.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] is it ? This is a London boot, eh ? ’ ‘That, sir, ’ I replied, ‘is a London boot. ’ He mused over it again, after the manner of Hamlet with Yorick 's skull; nodded his head, as who should say, ‘I pity the Institutions that led to the production of this boot ! ’; rose; put up his pencil, notes, and paper—glancing at himself in the glass, all the time—put on his hat—drew on his gloves very slowly; [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and held on to me, until, in tearing him off, they tore the skirt of my dress half away; and they carried him in, screaming ’ Mother ! mother ! mother ! ’ There was one man stood there seemed to pity me. I offered him all the money I had, if he'd only interfere. He shook his head, and said that the boy had been impudent and disobedient, ever since he bought him; that he was going to break him [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ O, Cassy ! do pity me ! ” “ Pity you ! — don't I ? Haven't I a daughter,—Lord knows where she is, and whose she is, now,—going the way her mother went, before her, I suppose, and that her children must go, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ O, Cassy ! do pity me ! ” “ Pity you ! — don't I ? Haven't I a daughter,—Lord knows where she is, and whose she is, now,—going the way her mother went, before her, I suppose, and that her children must go, after her ! There's no [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Pity him not ! Such a life and death is not for pity ! Not in the riches of omnipotence is the chief glory of God; but in self-denying, suffering love ! And blessed are the men whom he calls to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] infancy; by the motherly pity and tenderness with which you guide his growing years; by the anxieties of his education; by the prayers you breathe for his soul's eternal good; — I beseech you, pity the mother who has all your affections, and not one legal right to protect, guide, or educate, the child of her bosom ! By the sick hour of your child; by those dying eyes, which you can never [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] dying eyes, which you can never forget; by those last cries, that wrung your heart when you could neither help nor save; by the desolation of that empty cradle, that silent nursery,—I beseech you, pity those mothers that are constantly made childless by the American slave-trade ! And say, mothers of America, is this a thing to be defended, sympathized with, passed over in silence ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)