ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

914. Pity -- N. pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy,
fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency
&c (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long-suffering.
melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae
[Lat.].
sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
V. pity; have pity, show pity, take pity &c n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole &c
915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings
of.
forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup
de gr=ace, put out of one's misery.
raise pity, excite pity &c n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.
ask for mercy &c v.; supplicate &c (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel;
deprecate.
Adj. pitying &c v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.
merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c (philanthropic) 910; tender,
tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened † ; lenient &c 740;
exorable † , forbearing; melting &c v.; weak.
Int. for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!,
poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss! [Lat.]
[Vergil].
Phr. one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Lat.] [Vergil]; a
fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind; onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa [It]
[Garrick].
914a. Pitilessness -- N. pitilessness &c adj.; inclemency; severity &c 739; malevolence
&c 907.
V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c 914; give no quarter.
Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grimfaced,
grim-visaged; incompassionate † , uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh &c 739;
unrelenting &c 919.
915. Condolence -- N. condolence; lamentation &c 839; sympathy, consolation.
V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply
consolation; lament with &c 839; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel
sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.
4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
916. Gratitude -- N. gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation.
acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful
good will.
thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum &c (worship) 990 [Lat.]; grace, grace
before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals; thank offering.
requital.