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

She had the clear judicial mind which must inevitably see the tragic pitifulness of things.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

‘I’d no spirits for mischief,’ she answered, with mock pitifulness, twinkling up her eyes, and rubbing them with her knuckles as if she were crying. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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.