pitifulness

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

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

The senses may become terrified by plunging among them as they are, but there is a pitifulness even in their glory.

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

This sudden and complete revolution in her behavior was not owing to any change in principle, but to sheer pitifulness of temper.