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"Compassion"2 answers
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Definitions
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
Word origin
From Ruth the Moabite, Hebrew רות, of uncertain origin, possibly meaning "companion". Also associated with the English noun ruth (“compassion”) by Puritans.
Used in a sentence
“The dead mans corps hath made ſome Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryſe in beaſts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the reſt) / Uſe wracke [vengeance] for rewth? can murder like him beſt?”
“Look homevvard Angel novv, and melt vvith ruth. / And, O ye Dolphin, vvaft the haples youth.”
“[O]ft they ſnatch the Pen, / As if inſpir'd, and in a Theſpian Rage; / Then vvrite, and blot, as vvould your Ruth engage.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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