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Sympathy

noun

(pl. sympathies)

An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion. Synonym: understanding. "I knew I could count on his understanding"

Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish). Synonym: fellow feeling.

A relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other.

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"Sympathy" Quotes from Famous Books

... for some one." "To feel compassion." "To have sympathy for a person." "To feel bad for some one." "It means you help a person out and don't like to have him suffer." "To have a feeling for people when they are treated wrong." "If anybody gets hurt real bad you pity them." "It's when you feel sorry ...

— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... about to leave the shop. But the old saleswoman who knows her customers and has perceived the tale of love lurking under my whispering and my hesitation, feels a human sympathy. ...

— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann

... ways of viewing the question than could be compressed into so short a play. Myself, I confess to a sneaking sympathy with the standpoint of Crawshaw. Money for him did not mean mere self-indulgence; it meant outward show—a house in a better neighbourhood, a more expensive car, a higher status in the opinion of his world—all the things that somehow ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 18, 1917 • Various

... of 'This sad affair of Baretti[288],' begging of him to try if he could suggest any thing that might be of service; and, at the same time, recommending to him an industrious young man who kept a pickle-shop. JOHNSON. 'Ay, Sir, here you have a specimen of human sympathy; a friend hanged, and a cucumber pickled. We know not whether Baretti or the pickle-man has kept Davies from sleep; nor does he know himself. And as to his not sleeping, Sir; Tom Davies is a very great man; Tom has been upon the stage, and knows how to do those things. ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... to break up the government, if what they termed a war on Southern institutions should be continued. This feeling had in turn a most injurious influence in the South, and stimulated thousands in that section to a point of rashness which they would never have reached but for the sympathy and support constantly extended to them from the North. Even if a conflict of arms should be the ultimate result of the Secession movement, its authors and its deluded followers were made to believe ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

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