compassion
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from Latin com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
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Noun [edit]
compassion (uncountable)
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Translations [edit]
deep awareness of the suffering of another
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Verb [edit]
compassion (third-person singular simple present compassions, present participle compassioning, simple past and past participle compassioned)
- (obsolete) To pity.
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External links [edit]
- compassion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- compassion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Noun [edit]
compassion f (plural compassions)
