Full of pity or compassion; merciful, compassionate. Obsolete.

Full of compassion or pity; compassionate; merciful. Also as n. (with the with plural agreement): those people who are compassionate or merciful.

Full of pity; affected with or feeling pity; compassionate, tender, merciful; = pitiful, adj. 1. Now archaic and rare.

Merciful, full of pity; deserving or inspiring pity; = piteous, adj. 1, 2.

Compassionate, pitying. Obsolete.

Merciful; compassionate.

actively. Inclined to compassion; pitiful, compassionate. Obsolete.

Affected with compassion; sympathetic; compassionate.

Having pity, merciful, compassionate. Obsolete.

Affected with, characterized by, or expressing compassion; pitiful, sympathetic.

That pities; that feels, shows, or expresses pity; compassionate; †grieving (obsolete).

Compassionate, merciful.

Originally: †civil, courteous, or obliging towards others (obsolete). In later use: characterized by sympathy with and consideration for others…

Full of compassion. (In first quot. apparently ‘full of passion, passionate’.)

That shows or is characterized by remorse; remorseful; merciful.

Compassionate; merciful; full of pity. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic, compassionate, pitiful.

Full of compassion. Cf. yearn, v.1 6a. Obsolete.