Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An assumed occult influenee of' one mind upon another, inducing similarity of sensations and of emotions.

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Examples

  • Kirk's original post had nothing to do with a witch hunt for perceived communism or communist sympathism.

    Don't Fish With Commies Tim Romano 2008

  • This oneness of human life on earth is the source of the artist's sympathism; all may be walled in, but there are no separating partitions.

    Dostoievsky's Mystical Terror 1918

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