Results for sympathy

Definitions of sympathy:

part of speech: noun

Feeling with another: like feeling: an agreement of inclination, feeling, or sensation: compassion: pity: tenderness.

part of speech: noun

A feeling like that which another feels; harmony or agreement of affections or tastes.

Usage examples for sympathy:

• And then sympathy in that direction would be so dangerous should she decide upon going on with the Fawn marriage. "The Eustace Diamonds", Anthony Trollope

• There is a good deal that passes for kindness and sympathy in these days, that is nothing more than lazy good- nature. "White Slaves", Louis A Banks

• Something like sympathy made me stop him and say to him that Mademoiselle Lecouvreur would not act that night- nor any more I feared. "Francezka", Molly Elliot Seawell

• What fountain had been opened, I cannot tell; perhaps only that of sympathy with the hungry youth. "Warlock o' Glenwarlock", George MacDonald