Both Uses
compassion
in
Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
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- There are no harmless, compassionate ways to remake oneself.†
p. 29.6 *compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
- I watched the disintegration of enviable virtues: dutifulness, decency, compassion.†
p. 204.9compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)