All 5 Uses of
compassion
in
The Age of Innocence
- "Poor Ellen," she simply remarked; adding compassionately: "We must always bear in mind what an eccentric bringing-up Medora Manson gave her.†
Chpt 5
- A great wave of compassion had swept away his indifference and impatience: she stood before him as an exposed and pitiful figure, to be saved at all costs from farther wounding herself in her mad plunges against fate.†
Chpt 11 *
- Mrs. Welland smiled compassionately.†
Chpt 16
- If Mrs. Beaufort had not taken the tone that such misfortunes (the word was her own) were "the test of friendship," compassion for her might have tempered the general indignation against her husband.†
Chpt 28
- The growing remoteness of old age, though it had not diminished her curiosity about her neighbours, had blunted her never very lively compassion for their troubles; and she seemed to have no difficulty in putting the Beaufort disaster out of her mind.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help