All 14 Uses
compassion
in
Cry, the Beloved Country
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- And so slight was her body, and so few her years, that Kumalo for all his suffering was moved to compassion.†
Chpt 1.10compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.†
Chpt 1.10
- Who gives to me compassion for a girl my son has left?†
Chpt 1.13
- His brother is filled with compassion for him.
Chpt 1.14 *
- And why you have compassion for a girl, when you yourself find no compassion, that is a secret.†
Chpt 1.15
- And why you have compassion for a girl, when you yourself find no compassion, that is a secret.†
Chpt 1.15
- But the boy's eyes were filled with tears, and the father's compassion struggled with the temptation and overcame it.†
Chpt 1.17
- Jarvis was torn between compassion and irritation, and he stood and watched uncomfortably.†
Chpt 2.25
- The old man, moved to it by that deep compassion which was there within him, knelt by his son, and ran his hand over his head.†
Chpt 2.29
- And there the lawyer told him, in gentle and compassionate words, that there would be no mercy, and that his son would be hanged on the fifteenth day of that month.†
Chpt 3.32compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
- He explained how these words were written out of understanding and compassion.†
Chpt 3.34compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- Yes, they struck at the grave silent man at High Place, who after such deep hurt, had shown such deep compassion.†
Chpt 3.35
- And because he spoke with compassion, the old man wept, and Jarvis sat embarrassed on his horse.†
Chpt 3.36
- His heart went out in a great compassion for the boy that must die, who promised now, when there was no more mercy, to sin no more.†
Chpt 3.36
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)