compassion

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  1. noun Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. See Synonyms at pity.

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  • Ra's / Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share. —  Planet Atheism
  • The kindness of this woman and her compassion was amazing. —  The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS
  • I applaud Madonna for her compassion, her generosity, her reaching out. —  Blogger News Network
  • One can't say those words -- compassion, sacrifice, and endurance -- without thinking of the irony that one who so exemplifies them, Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and goodness, an inspiration to the world, would be struck by a bullet from a man towards whom he could only feel compassion and love. —  Latest Articles
  • I think this is a poor choice to view the idea of "compassion" - this is a guy who not only tried to kill others, but tried to kill himself, too - he's entirely responsible for his predicament. —  British Blogs
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pity ·  tenderness ·  generosity ·  sadness ·  sincerity ·  reverence ·  patience ·  goodness ·  regret ·  friendliness ·  forgiveness ·  charity
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English compassioun, from Late Latin compassiō, compassiōn-, from compassus, past participle of compatī, to sympathize : Latin com-, com- + Latin patī, to suffer; see pē(i)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English compassion, from Old French compassion, French compassion = Provencal compassio = Spanish compasion = Italian compassione, from Late Latin compassio (n-), sympathy, from compati (Middle Latin *compatire, later Italian compatire = Provencal F. compatir), past participle compassus, suffer together with, from Latin com-, together, + pati, suffer: see passion.
  2. from compassion, n.; =F. compassioner, etc.
 

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/kəmˈpæʃən/
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