† enpitev.
Obsolete.
transitive. ? To affect with compassion, touch the heart of.
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the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > affect with pity [verb (transitive)]
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c1400 Test. Love (1560) ii. 284/2 Yet I am glad and greatly enpited, how continually thou haddest me in mind.
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