All 5 Uses of
compassion
in
Wuthering Heights
- There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly, and I drew off, half angry to have listened at all, and vexed at having related my ridiculous nightmare, since it produced that agony; though WHY was beyond my comprehension.†
Chpt 3
- It hardly moved my compassion — it appalled me: still, I felt reluctant to quit him so.†
Chpt 16
- I began to dislike, more than to compassionate Linton, and to excuse his father in some measure for holding him cheap.†
Chpt 21 *
- 'Oh, well!' said Catherine, with scornful compassion, 'keep your secret: I'M no coward.†
Chpt 27
- Five nights and four days I remained, altogether, seeing nobody but Hareton once every morning; and he was a model of a jailor: surly, and dumb, and deaf to every attempt at moving his sense of justice or compassion.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help