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

Mr. Copley felt the pitifulness; he did not know what it meant.

From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan

Those tears tell us of His love, His mercy, His great pitifulness.

From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by Wilmot-Buxton, H. J.

The "douceur" of their sweet pitifulness towards him runs like a quivering magnetic current through all the maddest fancies of his wayward imagination.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper