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Definition of Pitying
1. a. Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.
Definition of Pitying
1. Verb. (present participle of pity) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pitying
1. pity [v] - See also: pity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitying
Literary usage of Pitying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"He spoke ; the Father, pitying, saw his tears, 760 Scatter'd the mist, and rent
the veil apart; The sun shone bright, and all the war lay clear. ..."
2. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"... alone with his sorrow. may be really a source of contentment, either actual
or future, to the being who already offends by pitying ? ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Three times Each fatal course he tried ; but Juno's power Three times restrained,
and with a pitying hand The warrior's purpose barred. ..."
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