See Pious, and cf. The more the pity . Sympathy is literally fellow-feeling , and therefore requiers a certain degree of equality in situation, circumstances, etc., to its fullest exercise.
Compassion is deep tenderness for another under severe or inevitable misfortune.
Pity regards its object not only as suffering, but weak , and hence as inferior. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. It pitieth them to see her in the dust. Bk. of Com. I will not pity , nor spare, nor have mercy.