pitifulness

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In fact, the sheer pitifulness of Doris’s self-deception would be downright insulting were it not for Field’s delicate performance, in which she subtly transforms from a slump-shouldered mouseburger to something more radiant and at ease.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Lee brought to his monsters a sense of pitifulness that he called "the loneliness of evil."

From Reuters • Jun. 11, 2015

The whole of nature has to seeing minds the same pitifulness.

From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Jarrett, Bede

But the greatest school for the learning of pitifulness is yonder at the feet of Jesus.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

Cranmer suddenly stretched out, with a timid pitifulness, his white hands.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox