Dyspathy definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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I'm disposed to immediately feel dyspathy with a secretary like Shea, but after goving at his story for a while, I begin to hansardize. — BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
I can look any way ... round, and _down_ even -- the merest thread of a sympathy will draw me sometimes -- or even the least look of kind eyes over a dyspathy -- 'Cela se peut facilement.' — The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
We have, once or twice or thrice, been on the border of mutual displeasure, on this very subject, for I grew really vexed to observe the trust on one side and the _dyspathy_ on the other -- using the mildest of words. — The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
Then I will confess to you that all my life long I have had a rather strange sympathy and dyspathy -- the sympathy having concerned the genus — The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
_jilt_ (as vulgarly called) male and female -- and the dyspathy -- the whole class of heroically virtuous persons who make sacrifices of what they call 'love' to what they call 'duty.' — The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846