All 4 Uses

compassion
in
Carrie, by Stephen King
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Her face bore a half-mad expression of compassion mixed with hate.†
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compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
Miss Desjardin was running toward her, and Miss Desjardin's face was filled with lying compassion.†
Her eyes fixed on Carrie 5 and there was a crazed, awful compassion in them.†
The realization suddenly brought everything up close, made it real, and compassion for Carrie broke through the dullness of her shock.†

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