Both Uses
compassion
in
Running in the Family
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- She would be compassionate to the character of children but tended to avoid holding them on her lap.†
p. 119.5 *compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
- Maybe they were too similar to even recognize much of a problem, both having huge compassionate hearts that never even considered revenge or small-mindedness, both howling and wheezing with laughter over the frailest joke, both carrying their own theatre on their backs.†
p. 125.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)