All 5 Uses of
compassion
in
The House of Mirth
- What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.†
Chpt 1.13
- A man who lived in lodgings missed the best part of life—he pictured the flavourless solitude of Trenor's repast, and felt a moment's compassion for the man ….†
Chpt 1.14
- Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- But compassion, in a moment, got the better of her instinctive recoil.†
Chpt 2.2
- The look drew a word of compassionate greeting from Lily, and he pressed on, as if encouraged by her tone: "I wanted to apologize—to ask you to forgive me for the miserable part I played——"†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help