Definition of "pitying" []

• Present participle of pity. (verb)

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• "The _idea_ of it -- when I think -- after all that was in the paper, and every one talking about it and pitying you -- _pitying_ you, Honor! ""
• "Children should be encouraged in pitying their distress; and if guilty of any violent treatment toward them, they should see that you are grieved and displeased at such conduct."
• "The Count, making a slight apology, withdrew, and every one joined in pitying the necessity for a separation of two persons so worthy of each other."