commiseration

• He begs to tender you his respectful commiseration, and advises scalp-massage (for me, I mean). —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
• Cousin Louisa was overflowing with interest, commiseration, and kindness, and he must endure them with as good a grace as he could muster. —  The Benevent Treasure - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 26: 1953
• It a hard thing that a poet may not protrude his gentle sorrows for our commiseration, mourn over his blighted hopes, or rejoice the bosom of some budding virgin by celebrating her, in his Tennysonian measure, as the light-tressed Ianthe or sleek-haired Claribel of his soul, without being immediately greeted by a burst of impertinent guffaws, and either wantonly parodied or profanely ridiculed to his face. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• "I must consider," replied Jemima; and withdrew, with the paper in her hand In a life of such seclusion, the passions gain undue force; Maria therefore felt a great degree of resentment and vexation, which she had not time to subdue, before Jemima, returning, delivered the paper Whoever you are, who partake of my fate, accept my sincere commiseration--I would have said protection; but the privilege of man is denied me My own situation forces a dreadful suspicion on my mind--I may not always languish in vain for freedom--say are you--I cannot ask the question; yet I will remember you when my remembrance can be of any use. —  Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Mr. Dockwrath as he thus expressed his commiseration was sitting with his high chair tilted back, with his knees against the edge of his desk, with his hat almost down upon his nose as he looked at his visitors from under it, and he amused himself by cutting up a quill pen into small pieces with his penknife. —  Orley Farm

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