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 fact of her stupidity cast a merciful veil of pitifulness over her.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Yet a man of remarkable courtesy and pitifulness towards women was not thereby moved from his purpose.

From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Yes, the greatest school of pitifulness is in the presence of Christ.

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