compassion
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
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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compassion (uncountable)
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deep awareness of the suffering of another
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[edit] External links
- compassion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- compassion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] French
[edit] Noun
compassion f. (plural compassions)
