pity

1. (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.Examples: "I can't feel any pity towards the gang, who got injured while attempting to break into a flat."; "take pity on someone"; "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord."Synonyms: mercy, ruth, bowels, commiseration, compassion, empathy, fellow feeling, mercyuncountable

2. (countable) Something regrettable.Examples: "It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight."; "What a pity about the band breaking up. I loved them!"; "It was a thousand pities."Synonyms: shamecountable

3. (obsolete, Early Modern) Piety.Examples: "Euen so on the other syde a mans harte is contrite, when it is cutte with compunction, mollified with pitie and deuotion, moued with prayers and exhortation, is affraide by threatninges, allured by kindnes, ashamed of dishonesty, geuing place to Gods inspiration, […]"; "A maruellous stoutnesse of a mans minde, accompanied vvith pitie tovvardes his countrie. When Lucius Scilla had ouercom by force of armes the Citie of Preyneste he gaue leaue and commission to the Souldiers that they should destroye it, and kyll all the Citizens sauing his Host, meaning with this good turne to shewe himselfe thankfull vnto hym, for manye curtesies receiued of hym at other times in his lodging. But that valiant Citizen hering of this commission, went foorth incontinently out of his house disguised & preasing in among other of his countrimen, sayd, that he had rather die, than owe his life to the destroyer of his countrie."; "The Church of Rome beyng moued neither with pitie, zeale, truth, reasõ, nor honesty, but onely with ambition and couetousnesse refuseth none, so they will shew thẽ selues to be of that Catholicke Church. Traytours, murtherers, theeues, coseners, cutters, adulters, baudes, strumpets and all other gracelesse persons may vpon the sayd cõditiõ haue safe accesse to Rome and be of that Church."EarlyModerncountableobsoleteuncountable