Both Uses
compassion
in
To the Lighthouse
(Auto-generated)
- Perhaps you will wake up and find the sun shining and the birds singing," she said compassionately, smoothing the little boy's hair, for her husband, with his caustic saying that it would not be fine, had dashed his spirits she could see.†
Part 1compassionately = with sympathy for another's suffering
- He stood there as if he were spreading his hands over all the weakness and suffering of mankind; she thought he was surveying, tolerantly and compassionately, their final destiny.†
Part 3 *
Definitions:
-
(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)