pitifulness

“I thought he was funny, and I loved the art because it’s about Catholic guilt, and it’s about pitifulness,” Mr. Waters said.

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.

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

There all is foulness, or pitifulness, or vice; and one, to live in happiness, and to take the moral of all nature to his heart, should live alone with nature.

By kindness and pitifulness of heart, by readiness to forgive, God’s “beloved children” will “show themselves imitators” of their Father.