- Pity is a
sympathetic sorrow evoked by the
suffering of others. The word is
comparable to comp****ion, condolence, or empathy. It
derives from the Latin...
- Full, as, for example, a voce
piena = "in full voice"
pietoso Pitiful,
piteous più More; see
mosso piuttosto Rather,
somewhat (e.g.
allegro piuttosto...
- Richard, late
mercifully reigning upon us, was
through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the
great heaviness of this City". York Records...
- temple-floors with
their dishevelled hair and
lifted up
their hands to
heaven in
piteous entreaty to the gods that they
would deliver the City of Rome out of the...
-
depths of **** Caïna
waits for him who took our lives." This was the
piteous tale they
stopped to tell.
Francesca further reports that she and Paolo...
- abbraide,
Knowing no mean but
death in her distrèsse, To her brothèr full
piteously she said, "Cause of my sorrowe,
roote of my heavinesse, That
whilom were...
- misery. The
blood of
countless human beings, even noncombatants,
raises a
piteous dirge over a
nation such as Our dear Poland, which, for its
fidelity to...
-
Romani woman a few
miles down the road
carrying a
child that was
crying piteously.
Scouts were
immediately dispatched in the
direction indicated, and they...
-
characterized Evelline's as a "menacing hard-rocker" and The Scarecrow's as a "
piteous lament". Contrastingly, he
describes Dorothy's
music as dull ballads. The...
-
repetition of words, as in the
series "pitiable", "pity", "pitied", and "
piteous". A
second typical device is the use of
unusual adjective-noun combinations...
