Sympathy: alternatives and connections

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradist…

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The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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of Feel

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Family relationship.

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Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.

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Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

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The quality or state of being compassionate.

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The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

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To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.

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That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as p…

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Piety.

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Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

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Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.

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Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.

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To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

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To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

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of Understand

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