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单词 compassion
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compassionn.

/kəmˈpaʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English compassioun, compassione, Middle English–1500s compassyon, Middle English compascyon.
Etymology: < French compassion (14th cent. in Littré), < late Latin compassiōn-em (Tertullian, Jerome), noun of action < compati (participial stem compass-) to suffer together with, feel pity, < com- together with + pati to suffer.
1. Suffering together with another, participation in suffering; fellow-feeling, sympathy. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy
compassion1340
compatience1398
fellow-feeling1578
sympathy1600
condolence1603
condolencya1631
compassivity1667
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 148 Huanne on leme is zik oþer y-wonded. hou moche zorȝe heþ þe herte and grat compassion y-uelþ.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. i. 100 The membres ben so sette togyders that..euery hath compassyon of other.
1561 R. Eden in tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Pref. sig. ¶iiv Such a mutuall compassion of parte to parte..by one common sence existent in them all.
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. iv. xxviii. 63 That it was onely by a vegetable or animall soule, which suffered by compassion with the body.
2.
a. The feeling or emotion, when a person is moved by the suffering or distress of another, and by the desire to relieve it; pity that inclines one to spare or to succour. Const. on (of obsolete).The compassion of sense 1 was between equals or fellow-sufferers; this is shown towards a person in distress by one who is free from it, who is, in this respect, his superior.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun]
rutha1200
ruenessa1225
ruefulnessc1225
birewnessa1250
pityc1300
ruea1325
compassionc1340
midtholing1340
miserationa1382
rueinga1382
bowel1382
mildc1390
tendresse1390
ruefulhead?a1400
ruthnessa1400
tendernessa1400
compunction1430
bowels of compassion1526
remorse1538
commiseration1582
kindheartedness1583
commorse1595
earning1603
tender-heartedness1607
compassionateness1614
visceraa1651
ruthfulness1674
karuna1850
c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 36 Þou may thynke of synnes and of wrechidnes of thyne euencristene..with pete and of compassione of thaym.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Joel ii. 12 The Lorde..is..longe sufferynge & of greate compassion.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 56 Mou'd with compassion of my Countries wracke. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) ix. 386 In Compassion whereof the worthy Gentleman doubled his Wages.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads i. 23 You on me compassion may show.
1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxvi. 56 You have every claim to compassion, that can arise from misery and distress.
1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 352 In compassion to her grief, and in answer to her prayers.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vii. 148 Compassion..gives the person who feels it pleasure even in the very act of ministering to and succouring pain.
b. with plural. Obsolete or archaic.
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1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. YYYiiiv All the compassions & mercyes, that thou shewed to the people.
1611 Bible (King James) Lament. iii. 22 His compassions faile not. View more context for this quotation
1787 J. Whitaker Mary Queen of Scots Vindicated in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) 263 All the little jealousies of the rival will surely melt away in the compassions of the woman.
c. to have compassion: to have pity, take pity. So †to take compassion (upon, of).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity or compassion [verb (intransitive)] > show pity or compassion
to have (also take) pitya1300
to have compassionc1384
to take compassion (upon, of)a1593
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. x. 34 For whi and to boundun men ȝe hadden compassioun.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 390 Prol. And han of pore folk compassioun.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton C iv I haue grete ruthe and compassion on you.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. H4v Thy hart..Could not but take compassion of my state.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. ii. 6 She had compassion on him. View more context for this quotation
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. i. 164 I..besought him not so to have compassion of a daughter whom he had made miserable.
1723 B. Mandeville Ess. Charity in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 290 Humanity bids us have Compassion with the Sufferings of others.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 104 Have compassion on the mighty whom love hath abased.
3. Sorrowful emotion, sorrow, grief. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun]
rueeOE
teeneOE
sorrowOE
gramec1000
sytec1175
ruthc1225
dolea1240
balec1275
sighinga1300
dolour13..
ermingc1300
heartbreakc1330
discomfortc1350
griefa1375
tristourc1380
desolation1382
sichinga1387
tristesse1390
compassiona1400
rueinga1400
smarta1400
displeasure14..
gremec1400
heavity14..
dillc1420
notea1425
discomforturec1450
dolefulnessc1450
wandremec1450
regratec1485
doleance1490
trista1510
mispleasance1532
pathologiesa1586
balefulness1590
drearing1591
distressedness1592
woenessa1600
desertion1694
ruesomeness1881
schmerz1887
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 23945 (heading) (MED) Compassioun of our lauedi for þe passioun of hir sone.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) i. sig. Aij/1 Teres of compascyon, teres of compunccion, teres of loue, & of deuocyon.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C2v Her hart gan melt in great compassion, And drizling teares did shed for pure affection.

Draft additions April 2002

compassion fatigue n. originally U.S. apathy or indifference towards the suffering of others or to charitable causes acting on their behalf, typically attributed to numbingly frequent appeals for assistance, esp. donations; (hence) a diminishing public response to frequent charitable appeals.
ΚΠ
1968 A. W. Farmer in Minutes Comm. World Service (Lutheran World Federation) 64 You have been hearing and perhaps using, as I have, the phrase ‘Compassion Fatigue’. We are just tired out with all the repeated appeals to do good.
1987 Listener 29 Oct. 19/2 What the refugee workers call ‘compassion fatigue’ has set in. Back in the 1970s, when the boat people were on the front pages, the world was eager to help. But now the boat people are old news.
1995 S. Nye Best of Men behaving Badly (2000) 4th Ser. Episode 6. 161/2 Deborah. Anything to help Dorothy? Gary. No, thanks, I'll shoulder the burden of caring for her. Deborah. Oh, well, maybe later, when compassion fatigue sets in.
2000 Big Issue 4 Sept. 25/2 In a culture exhausted by compassion fatigue, shock is now used more cautiously.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

compassionv.

Etymology: < compassion n., or probably < French compassionner (15th cent. in Littré) to compassionate.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: comˈpassion.
transitive. To have compassion on, to pity. (‘A word scarcely used’, Johnson.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > show pity or compassion to
tender1442
commiserate1587
compassion1594
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. i. 123 Can you heare a goodman grone And not relent, or not compassion him? View more context for this quotation
1627 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 72 Shall I..compassion those that do attempt my ruine?
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxii. 222 The people who compassioned his youth, his virtue and his noble birth.
1873 Argosy 16 35 Dr. Knox compassioned Janet's hard place.

Derivatives

comˈpassioning n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > showing or expressing
commiserate1593
commiserantc1606
commiserating1609
commiserative1614
commiserable1618
compassionating1635
compassioning1830
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 226 Both wanted..a kind, compassioning adviser.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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