ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon|!, gerfalcon|!.
     wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell-hound,
sleuth-hound; catamount [U.  S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.
     hag, hellhag[obs3], beldam, Jezebel.
     monster; fiend &c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape;
Frankenstein’s monster.
     harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides. 
     Hun, Attila[obs3], scourge of the human race. 
     Phr. faenum habet in cornu [Lat].

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     #914.  Pity. —­ N. pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of
compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c. (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long-suffering.
     melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam[Lat], quarter, grace, locus
paenitentiae[Lat].
     sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher. 
     V. pity; have pity, show pity, take pity &c. n.; commiserate,
compassionate; condole &c. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.
     forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere
subjectis[Lat], give a coup de grace, put out of one’s misery.
     raise pity, excite pity &c. n..; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart;
propitiate, disarm.
     ask for mercy &c. v.; supplicate &c. (request) 765; cry for quarter,
beg one’s life, kneel; deprecate. 
     Adj. pitying &c. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.
     merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c. (philanthropic)
910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened[obs3]; lenient &c. 740; exorable[obs3], forbearing; melting &c. v.; weak. 
     Int. for pity’s sake! mercy! have mercy! cry you mercy!  God help you!
poor thing! poor dear! poor fellow! woe betide! “quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!” [Lat][Vergil]. 
     Phr. one’s heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere
disco [Lat][Vergil]; “a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind” onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa[Garrick][It].

     #914a.  Pitilessness. —­ N. pitilessness &c. adj.; inclemency; severity
&c. 739; malevolence &c. 907. 
     V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c. 914; give no quarter. 
     Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful,
inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate[obs3], uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh &c. 739; unrelenting &c. 919.

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     #915.  Condolence. —­ N. condolence; lamentation &c. 839; sympathy,
consolation. 
     V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity;
afford consolation, supply consolation; lament &c. 839 with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one’s sorrow.