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  1. 1. n. Piety. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; feeling">fellow-feeling; commiseration. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To move to pity; -- used impersonally. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. i. To be compassionate; to show pity. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. an unfortunate development Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it Source: wordnet
  10. 10. v. share the suffering of Source: wordnet
  11. 11. To be compassionate; to show pity.I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. Jer. xiii. 14. Source: adambom

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