Word Finder - sympathy

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A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.

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The ability to share the feelings of another.

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A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

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Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

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Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.

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Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.

I've received too much sympathy in the last few weeks.

His sympathy only made matters worse and she hiccupped.

He expressed sympathy for the bomb victims.

I realize in most ways Edith isn't deserving of too much sympathy, but I still think of her as a tragic figure.

She has a large, generous sympathy and absolute fairness of temper.

I offer my deepest sympathy to his family, also to the band which I hope will carry on, given time to reflect.

The committee was in sympathy with the aspirations of Every Child Matters.

The teachers were in sympathy with the aims and ethos of the school.

Pierre did not answer, but looked cordially into the Frenchman's eyes whose expression of sympathy was pleasing to him.

Don't vote for me out of sympathy.

The kind man's face held a hint of sympathy.

Those attending a conference abroad tend to be the envy of their colleagues so complaints about such trials and tribulations elicit little sympathy.

No one expressed any sympathy for Billie and Willie, not even Baratto.

It wasn't her intent to solicit sympathy from anyone, much less her paying guests.

At a personal level, therefore, I have the utmost sympathy for staff employed by British Waterways facing a reorganization.

Perhaps we feel some sympathy with the elder son.

Please accept my sincere sympathy in the loss of your Pepper.

His fierceness took her breath away, and the dark circles beneath his eyes drew her sympathy.

He was anxiously sensitive about the opinion of others, eager for their sympathy and regard, and, in general, impressionable to their influence.

She waved back, wondering how the most damning of them all was also the only who seemed anywhere able to feel sympathy.

If you want to discuss sympathy, think about poor me, pining away for a hot time and getting nada.

Sometimes it was easier to accept his disappointment than sympathy.

Hortensius, and he had the sympathy and support of several of the leading Roman nobles.

The funeral was an excellent forum for sympathy tributes.

Her logic and her sympathy are in excellent balance.

The Yorkist faction seems to have been strongest in the eastern portion of the Principality, where the Mortimers were all-powerful, but later the close connexion of the house of Lancaster with Owen Tudor, a gentleman of Anglesea (beheaded in 1461) who had married Catherine of France, widow of Henry V., did much to invite Welsh sympathy on behalf of the claims of Henry Tudor his grandson, who claimed the English throne by right of his grandmother.

The following year the Venetian brothers Bandiera, acting in concert with Mazzini, landed in Calabria, believing the whole country to be in a state of revolt; they met with little local support and were quickly captured and shot, but their death aroused much sympathy, and the whole episode was highly significant as being the first attempt made by north Italians to promote revolution in the south.

Dean's multiplication table of 44, the number of rented apartments, wasn't perfect, but that num­ber times even a reasonable monthly rental lessened any sympathy he might have felt for the woman's financial plight.

Even to those who are in sympathy with III.

Johann von Henneberg, who was abbot from 5529 to 1541, showed some sympathy with the teaching of the reformers, but the Counter-Reformation made great progress here under Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach.

In Paris Ruge tried to act with Karl Marx as co-editor of the Deutsch-Franzosische JahrNicher, but had little sympathy with Marx's socialistic theories, and soon left him.

What follows is inevitably, whether directly or indirectly, by sympathy or by antagonism, affected by the Aristotelian tradition.

The active part he took in advocating the abolition of the slave-trade is evidence of a wider power of sympathy.

Counter - In Italy, though declared Protestants were few, there was widespread sympathy with some of Luther's ideas; a committee of cardinals at Rome was accordingly organized into an Inquisition, with branches at the chief Italian towns.

Their place was filled by Poppaea, and the infamous Tigellinus, whose sympathy with Nero's sensual tastes had gained him the command of the praetorian guards in succession to Burrus.

Conspicuous among them was Paetus Thrasea, whose unbending virtue had long made him distasteful to Nero, and who was now suspected, possibly with reason, of sympathy with the conspirators.

The four main instruments of the reaction were the papacy, which had done so much by its sympathy with the revival to promote the humanistic spirit it now dreaded, the strength of Spain, and two Spanish institutions planted on Roman soil - the Inquisition and the Order of Jesus.

In his reign was begun the reckless system of foreign loans, carried to excess in the ensuing reign, and culminating in default, which led to the alienation of European sympathy from Turkey and, indirectly, to the dethronement and death of Abd-ul-Aziz.

Both as leader of Union Chapel and in denominational affairs his courage and discretion, his simple faith, combined with a broadminded sympathy with the intellectual movements of the time, made his ministry a widespread influence for good.

Mill belonged to a generation in which the most remarkable feature was the growth of sympathy.

Moreover, it is in sympathy that he finds the obligation and sanction of morality.

To understand the genesis of human morality we must study the ways of sociable animals such as horses and monkeys, which give each other assistance in trouble, feel mutual affection and sympathy, and experience pleasure in doing actions that benefit the society to which they belong.

John De Witt had been Spinoza's friend, and had bestowed a small pension upon him; he had Spinoza's full sympathy in his political aims. On receiving the news of the brutal murder of the two brothers, Spinoza burst into tears, and his indignation was so roused that he was bent upon publicly denouncing the crime upon the spot where it had been committed.

Unlike her father, this creature was capable of sympathy.

His father, who had made a large fortune as the inventor and proprietor of "Morison's Pills," settled in Paris till his death in 1840, and Cotter Morison thus acquired not only an acquaintance with the French language, but a profound sympathy with France and French institutions.

He was bold enough to speak and vote for the "detention of Louis during the war and his perpetual banishment afterwards," and he pointed out that the execution of the king would alienate American sympathy.

Story was a staunch supporter of his Church, and had little sympathy for schemes of reunion with the other Presbyterian communities.

A revolt headed by Procopius in the second year of his reign, and backed up by the public opinion of Constantinople and the sympathy of the Gothic princes and chiefs on the Danube, seemed so alarming to him that he thought of negotiation; but in the following year the revolt collapsed before the firmness of his ministers and generals.

The Franciscans had no sympathy for profane knowledge, even among the Mexicans, - sometimes publicly burning quantities of books of a scientific or miscellaneous nature; and the reading of Fenelon's Telemaque brought excommunications on a layman.

She refused to show any sympathy with the king after William had landed in November, and wrote, with the advice of the Churchills, to the prince, ' See also Hist.