fellowfeel

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fellow +‎ feel

Verb[edit]

fellowfeel (third-person singular simple present fellowfeels, present participle fellowfeeling, simple past and past participle fellowfelt)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To empathize or sympathize with.
    • 1650, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian, His Disease and Cure[1]:
      We should count her a very tender mother which should bear the pain twice, and fellowfeel the infant's strivings and wrestlings the second time, rather than want her child.