pity is akin to love

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• pity is akin to love — 1601 SHAKESPEARE Twelfth Night III. i. 119 I pity you. That’s a degree to love. 1696 T. SOUTHERNE Oroonoko II. i. Do, pity me: Pity’s a kin to Love. a 1895 F. LOCKER LAMPSON My Confidences (1896) 95 They say that Pity is akin to Love, though only …   Proverbs new dictionary

• pity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Feeling of compassion for another Nouns pity, compassion, commiseration, sympathy; lamentation, condolence; empathy, fellow feeling, tenderness, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency, charity, ruth,… …   English dictionary for students

• love — noun see love and a cough cannot be hid love begets love love is blind love laughs at locksmiths love makes the world go round love will find a way …   Proverbs new dictionary

• pity — see pity is akin to love better be envied than pitied …   Proverbs new dictionary

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• Charity and Charities — • In its widest and highest sense, charity includes love of God as well as love of man Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Charity and Charities     Charity and Charities …   Catholic encyclopedia

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• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

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