Both Uses
compassion
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- ...all I can say is, when you and Jem are grown, maybe you'll look back on this with some compassion and some feeling that I didn't let you down.
p. 120.5 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering
- But she did not hear the compassion in his invitation.
p. 213.8compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)