Classes Sentient and Moral Powers Sympathetic Affections Special Sympathetic Affections
Special Sympathetic Affections
Nouns
pity, compassion, commiseration
bowels, of compassion
sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency
leniency etc. (lenity) Lenity
charity, ruth, long-suffering. melting mood
quarter, grace
advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
Verbs
pity
have pity, show pity, take pity etc. n.
commiserate, compassionate
condole etc. Condolence
sympathize
feel for, be sorry for, yearn for
weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery. raise pity, excite pity etc. n.
touch, soften
melt, melt the heart
propitiate, disarm. ask for mercy etc. v.
supplicate etc. (request) Request
cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel
deprecate.
Adjectives
pitying etc. v.
pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched. merciful, clement, ruthful
humane
humanitarian etc. (philanthropic) Philanthropy
tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken
soft, soft hearted
unhardened
lenient etc. Lenity
exorable, forbearing
melting etc. v.
weak.
Int
for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!
Phrases
one's heart bleeding for
a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind
Verbs
have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy etc. Pity
give no quarter.
Adjectives
pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless
unpitying, unmerciful, inclement
grim-faced, grim-visaged
incompassionate, uncompassionate
inexorable
harsh etc. Severity
unrelenting etc. Revenge .
Verbs
condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity
afford consolation, supply consolation
lament with etc. [Expression of pain.] Lamentation
express sympathy for
feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with
share one's sorrow.