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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xii. 22 Namely to make him ambitious of honour, iealous and difficult in his worships, terrible, angrie, vindicatiue, a louer, a hater, a pitier, and indigent of mans worships.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 57 It suffiseth me to be..the frend of my frends, the pittyer of my enemies.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. xvii. sig. Aa4 That which such a pittyer [1601 pittier; 1609 pitier] seldom mends.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vii. 53 The Favourers and Pittyers of the Cause.

1789 J. Byng Diary 29 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 108 Hear this, ye pitiers of money-begums.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 201 An admirer of me & a pitier of my principles.

1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 233 This class of pitiers of themselves.

1876 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids viii. 74 O pityer of my pain.

1941 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 62 428 Cicero's pleasure in pity is marked by an admiration of the commiserated person, the moral effect of which might be to inspire the pitier to meet his own misfortunes with greater courage.

2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 10 May 2 The needer hates the subject of their need as much as the pitier hates the subject of their pity.