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UK
/kəmpˈæʃən/
]
[ US /kəmˈpæʃən/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpæʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
- a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
How To Use compassion In A Sentence
- But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
- That's, kind of, the heart of what they call compassionate conservatism: that the American experience must be alive and viable for everyone, and that government has a role to help people have the tools so they can help themselves. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004
- I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
- Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
- Will Ralphie boy have a similar experience and actually convert from his corrupt “moneychanger” fake Christian mentality and embrace more liberal, compassionate Christian beliefs and behaviors? Firedoglake » Safavian Found Guilty
- If I didn't have a shoulder to lean on or a compassionate ear willing to listen to me rant, I might've been tempted to quit.
- Andrew Carnegie has been called the patron saint of compassionate capitalism.
- The fact that compassion is both voluntary and learned differentiates it from other kinds of suffering, which are involuntary and connate.
- I was prepared to be magnanimous, prepared to feel compassion for him.
- For this cause also God has banished from His presence him who did of his own accord stealthily sow the tares, that is, him who brought about the transgression; [4433] but He took compassion upon man, who, through want of care no doubt, but still wickedly [on the part of another], became involved in disobedience; and ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus