Both Uses
compassion
in
It Happened to Nancy
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- In fact, I think I'm getting closer to my folks through talking to him about them, and I'm learning more respect and compassion and everything for them now that I'm giving a little thought to how it would be without them.†
p. 13.1 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- I'll just live for the moments when we can be alone, and he can be his own true, sweet, loving, tender, understanding, compassionate, funny, fun self: Like, halfway through our Cokes he whispered seriously to me, "The sun shines brighter around you, the grass is greener, my appetite is healthier."†
p. 16.3compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)