Crossword-Solution: COMMISERATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Commiseration | n. | The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. |
We have 47 clues for the answer “COMMISERATION”
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| Joint pain relief? | 1 answer |
| humanitarianism | 11 answers |
| Empathy | 15 answers |
| loving kindness | 16 answers |
| milk of human kindness | 16 answers |
| nonconformist conscience | 16 answers |
| heart of gold | 17 answers |
| goodness and mercy | 17 answers |
| social conscience | 18 answers |
| universal benevolence | 18 answers |
| sympathy | 18 answers |
| kind act | 19 answers |
| humanism | 19 answers |
| good works | 19 answers |
| AHIMSA | 21 answers |
| beneficence | 22 answers |
| philanthropy | 23 answers |
| voluntary work | 24 answers |
| Labor of love? | 25 answers |
| holy war | 25 answers |
| labour of love | 25 answers |
| good deed | 29 answers |
| CONSCIENCE ___ | 37 answers |
| Benevo-lence | 38 answers |
| Decency | 39 answers |
| benignity | 39 answers |
| gentleness | 41 answers |
| Goodwill | 42 answers |
| "Pity!" | 46 answers |
| Fund | 51 answers |
| Charity | 52 answers |
| Magnanimity | 53 answers |
| forbearance | 55 answers |
| clemency | 59 answers |
| GOOD points | 61 answers |
| Leniency | 66 answers |
| Kindness | 71 answers |
| Tenderness | 72 answers |
| Compas-sion | 75 answers |
| good turn | 75 answers |
| Foundation | 77 answers |
| humanity | 78 answers |
| Feeling | 81 answers |
| soft touch | 81 answers |
| Goodness | 87 answers |
| COMFORT ___ | 89 answers |
| Grace | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with COMMISERATION (5)
She ended weeping, and her lowlie plight, Immoveable till peace obtain’d from fault Acknowledg’d and deplor’d, in _Adam_ wraught Commiseration; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so faire his reconcilement seeking, His counsel whom she had displeas’d, his aide; As one disarm’d, his anger all he lost, And thus with peaceful words uprais’d her soon.
Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things; or by whatever other intangible circumstance was then, as now, sufficient to bestow, on some persons, what others might seek in vain; or because Hester really filled a gap which must otherwise have remained vacant; it is certain that she had ready and fairly requited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with her needle.
Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer.
Don’t you see she will fall!” There was much commiseration for her as she was removed, and much sympathy with her father.
Weston shook his head, and looked solemn, and said, “Ah! poor woman, who would have thought it!” and resolved, that his mourning should be as handsome as possible; and his wife sat sighing and moralising over her broad hems with a commiseration and good sense, true and steady.
Quotes with COMMISERATION (3)
Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an apalling and hopeless ennui. She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever …
I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness.
Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentality is nothing but the infinitely degraded form of bestiality, the racist commiseration.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2021).