compassion


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
compassion/kəmˈpaʃn/
noun sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
– origin ME: via OFr. from eccles. L. compassio(n-), from compati ‘suffer with’.
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