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Also, have pity on . Show compassion or mercy to, as in Take pity on the cook and eat that last piece of cake , or, as Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible has it (Job 19:21), “Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye, my friends.” This idiom may be used half-jokingly, as in the first example, or seriously. [Late 1200s]

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