Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long- suffering. melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae [Lat.]. sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher. V. pity; have pity, show pity, take pity &c n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole &c 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup de grâce, put out of one's misery. raise pity, excite pity &c n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm. ask for mercy &c v.; supplicate &c (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate. Adj. pitying &c v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched. merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c (philanthropic) 910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened†; lenient &c 740; exorable†, forbearing; melting &c v.; weak. Int. for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss! [Lat.] [Vergil]. Phr. one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Lat.] [Vergil]; a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind; onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa [It] [Garrick]. 914a. Pitilessness — N. pitilessness &c adj.; inclemency; severity &c 739; malevolence &c 907. V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c 914; give no quarter. Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate†, uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh &c 739; unrelenting &c 919.