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- verb Obsolete spelling of
pity .
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Examples
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"pittie" -- two-foot-ten of conceit and vanity, to say nothing of other wickednesses.
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A program at noon March 20 will feature Indiana Pacers 'television play-by-play announcer Chris Denari and his pit bull Bailey, a "pit parade" for local folks to show their "pittie" pride, free fact vs. fiction pit bull information seminar, and safety tips from dog trainer Fernando Pastran.
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No pittie is put up for adoption without temperament testing, so it's a matter of educating folks that pits are great family dogs, love children -- but they are not first-time adopter dogs, like many breeds that prospective owners should research rather than impulse adopt.
Pam Spaulding: Thought Provoking Surprises in Breed-Specific Legislation 2010
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I'm possibly a very bad person, because I've been laughing at my pathetic pittie since Friday.
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But ai pittie deh fool who trize to be movin deh kitteh!
And I did - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town way.
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Thou pretendest much pittie and care of me, but all to no other end: but what mischeefes thou dreamest happening unto mee, so wouldest thou see them effected on me.
The Decameron 2004
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Aldobrandino, I am a friend of thine, whom Heaven hath sent to doe thee good, in meere pittie and compassion of thine innocency.
The Decameron 2004
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And now the tragicke sceane of death begins, Acts of the night, deeds of the ouglie darke, When Furies brands gaue light to furious sins, And gastlie silence gaping wounds did marke; Sing sadlie then my Muse (teares pittie wins) Yet mount thy wings beyond the mornings Larke, And wanting thunder, with thy lightnings might,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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No force, no wit, no meane, nor man is able; Then since that peace prostrate to vs repaires, Vnlesse our selues, our selues make miserable, _Herculeen_ Knight, for pittie, pittie lend, No fame consists in wilfull desperat end.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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