COMPASSION in FRANKENSTEIN - verbalworkout.com

13 uses

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Definition

sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help

I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution.
Chapter 10 (94% in)

compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help

For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.
Introductory Letters (74% in)

compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help

Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?
Chapter 10 (71% in)

compassion = sympathy

compassion = sympathy

compassion = sympathy

These were the reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude; but when I contemplated the virtues of the cottagers, their amiable and benevolent dispositions, I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity.
Chapter 15 (41% in)

compassionate = feel sympathy for

Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?
Chapter 15 (42% in)

compassion = sympathy

Pitiless as you have been towards me, I now see compassion in your eyes; let me seize the favourable moment and persuade you to promise what I so ardently desire.
Chapter 17 (41% in)

compassion = sympathy

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 (53% in)

compassionated = felt sympathy for

His countenance expressed sympathy and compassion; he drew a chair close to mine and addressed me in French, "I fear that this place is very shocking to you; can I do anything to make you more comfortable?"
Chapter 21 (47% in)

compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help

She was thinner and had lost much of that heavenly vivacity that had before charmed me; but her gentleness and soft looks of compassion made her a more fit companion for one blasted and miserable as I was.
Chapter 22 (57% in)

compassion = sympathy

My unfortunate guest regards me with the tenderest compassion.
Chapter 24 (53% in)

compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help

His voice seemed suffocated, and my first impulses, which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend in destroying his enemy, were now suspended by a mixture of curiosity and compassion.
Chapter 24 (80% in)

compassion = sympathy

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