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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compassion \Com*pas"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. compassio, fr. compati
     to have compassion; com- + pati to bear, suffer. See
     {Patient}.]
     Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow
     excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity;
     commiseration.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Womanly ingenuity set to work by womanly compassion.
                                                    --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling; mercy;
          condolence. See {Pity}.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compassion \Com*pas"sion\, v. t.
     To pity. [Obs.] --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  compassion
       n 1: a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
            [syn: {compassionateness}]
       2: the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others
          and wanting to do something about it [syn: {pity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "compassion":
     acceptance, affectionateness, benevolence, benignancy, benignity,
     brotherhood, charity, clemency, clementness, commiseration,
     condolence, easiness, easygoingness, empathy, favor, feeling,
     feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, forbearance, forbearing,
     forgiveness, fraternal feeling, gentleness, goodness,
     goodness of heart, grace, graciousness, heart of gold, humaneness,
     humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition,
     kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity,
     loving kindness, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation,
     moderateness, niceness, pardon, pathos, patience, pity, quarter,
     relief, reprieve, rue, ruth, self-pity, softheartedness, softness,
     soul of kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness,
     tolerance, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart
  
  

















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