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Out of pity, person's kind (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

type

'kind' is the definition.
(type is a kind of kind)

'out of pity person's' is the wordplay.
'out of' indicates a hidden word.
'TYPE' is hidden within 'pity person'.

(Other definitions for type that I've seen before include "Thing or person of a specified kind" , "output, printed" , "Class or group of a particular class" , "Sort - way to write" , "Category, sort" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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