All 3 Uses
compassion
in
Uncle Vanya
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- You all abuse my husband and look on me with compassion; you think, "Poor woman, she is married to an old man."†
Act 1 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- How well I understand your compassion!†
Act 1
- We shall see all evil and all our pain sink away in the great compassion that shall enfold the world.†
Act 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)