Chapter Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

To excite pity, touch, soften, melt, propitiate.

To ask for pity, mercy, etc.; to supplicate, implore, deprecate, appeal to, cry for quarter, etc.; beg one's life, kneel, fall on one's knees, etc.

(Adjectives). Pitying, commiserating, etc.

Pitiful, compassionate, tender, clement, merciful, lenient, relenting, etc.; soft-hearted, sympathetic, tender, weak, soft, melting, unhardened 740.

(Phrases). Tender as a chicken; one's heart bleeding for.

(Interjections). For pity's sake! mercy! cry you mercy! God help you! poor thing! poor fellow!

• Condolence (Substantives), lamentation, lament (see 839), sympathy, consolation.

(Verbs). To condole with, console, sympathise; express, testify, etc.; pity; to afford or supply consolation, lament with, weep with, etc. 839.

4°. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections

• Gratitude (Substantives), thankfulness, feeling of obligation.

Acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, giving thanks.

Thanks, praise, benediction, pèan, Te Deum 990.

Requital, thank-offering.

(Verbs). To be grateful, etc.; to thank, to give, render, return, offer, tender thanks, acknowledgments, etc.; to acknowledge, requite.

To lie under an obligation, to be obliged, beholden, etc., savoir gré.

(Phrases). To overflow with gratitude; to thank one's stars; never to forget.

(Adjectives). Grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation, etc.

(Interjections). Thanks! many thanks! gramercy! much obliged! thank heaven! heaven be praised!

• Ingratitude (Substantives), thanklessness, oblivion of benefits.

(Phrases). "Benefits forgot"; "Et tu, Brute!"

(Verbs). To be ungrateful, etc.; to forget benefits.

(Phrase). To look a gift-horse in the mouth.

(Adjectives). Ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful, thankless.

Forgotten, unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded.

(Phrase). Thank you for nothing.

• Forgiveness (Substantives), pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion, indulgence, reprieve.

Reconcilement, reconciliation, shaking of hands, pacification 723.

Excuse, exoneration, quittance, acquittal, propitiation, exculpation.