noun piety.
2. pity ·vi to be compassionate; to show pity.
3. pity ·vt to move to pity;
used impersonally.
4. pity ·noun a reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
5. pity ·noun a feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
6. pity ·vt 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.