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to excite to pity

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  • 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

  • Pity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 pity pity compassion commiseration Sgm: N 1 bowels bowels of compassion Sgm: N 1 sympathy sympathy fellow feeling tenderness yearning forbearance …   English dictionary for students

  • excite — transitive verb (excited; exciting) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French exciter, from Latin excitare, from ex + citare to rouse more at cite Date: 14th century 1. a. to call to activity b. to rouse to an emotional response < scenes to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • tragedy — /traj i dee/, n., pl. tragedies. 1. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society …   Universalium

  • The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …   Wikipedia

  • Characters of Shakespear's Plays —   …   Wikipedia

  • pitiable — /ˈpɪtiəbəl / (say piteeuhbuhl) adjective 1. deserving to be pitied; such as justly to excite pity; lamentable; deplorable: *they – the men, anyway – were liable to heavy punishment if discovered. They were considered amusing and revolting, but… …  

  • pitiful — /ˈpɪtəfəl / (say pituhfuhl) adjective 1. such as to excite or deserve pity: a pitiful fate. 2. such as to excite contempt by smallness, poor quality, etc.: *He made another pitiful attempt to speak, but the effort was beyond him and, ashamed of… …  

  • Peripeteia — (Greek, polytonic|Περιπέτεια) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature. The English form of peripeteia is Peripety . Peripety is a sudden reversal dependent on intellect… …   Wikipedia

  • aesthetics — /es thet iks/ or, esp. Brit., /ees /, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the… …   Universalium

  • Move — (m[=oo]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moved} (m[=oo]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Moving}.] [OE. moven, OF. moveir, F. mouvoir, L. movere; cf. Gr. amei bein to change, exchange, go in or out, quit, Skr. m[=i]v, p. p. m[=u]ta, to move, push. Cf. {Emotion},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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