LekhoriLekhoriSomething regrettable.
It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
Piety.
Euen so on the other syde a mans harte is contrite, when it is cutte with compunction, mollified with pitie and deuotion, moued with prayers and exhortation, is affraide by threatninges, allured by kindnes, ashamed of dishonesty, geuing place to Gods inspiration, […]
To feel pity for (someone or something).
You have got to pity the guy - he lost his wife, mother and job in the same month.
Ellipsis of what a pity.
From Middle English pitye, pitie, pittye, pitee, pite, from Anglo-Norman pité, pittee etc., from Old French pitet, pitié, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and piety.
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To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.