Definition of "pities" [pities]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pity. (verb)

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• "The person one pities is a person one may like but does not truly respect"
• "God will take away that which their soul pities, that is, of which they say, What a pity is it that it should be cut off and destroyed!"
• "So van Aert presumably "pities" Chen and most of the people in Taiwan -- about 90 percent of the 23 million people who live here who are Buddhists or Taoists -- because they do not know Jesus?"