Meanings of grievous pity in English

It would be indeed grievous pity if any cause came to hold them back.

And Allah knew it was a grievous pity, for her adherence would have clinched the matter.

One felt it a grievous pity that so beautiful a fabric should be doomed to destruction.

It will be a grievous pity if her relatives are not to be found, was the answer.

That they should miss in a great measure the best of life seemed such a grievous pity!

Still, that is of comparatively little consequence, but I do think that it would be a grievous pity for you to risk your lives further.

If those high purposes should run only into romance like mine, or grow out into eccentricities and unfemininesses, what a grievous pity it would be!

"If they do come, though, what a grievous pity it would be to have all our collection destroyed," said Mr Hooker.