单词 | fellow-feeler |
释义 | fellow-feelern. A person who shares in or experiences the feelings of another specified person; spec. a person who sympathizes with another's suffering, distress, pain, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > [noun] > sympathetic person fellow-feeler1581 consympathite1616 sympathetic1906 1581 A. Gurney Doleful Disc. Fire in E. Dearham, Norfolke Ep. Ded. sig. A.2 I both was and am a witnes of the wonderful euents therof: and therwithall..a fellow feeler of the heauy burthen imposed vpon the townes estate. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iii. sig. G3v Am I not your fellow-feeler..in all our miseries? 1675 S. Ford Eternal Glorification iv. 133 They are not sympathizers with, and Fellow-feelers of each others Afflictions. 1770 P. Skelton Wks. V. 528 Shaftsbury..placed all morality in sentiment;..Wollaston, as a refiner, in the truth of actions; and Smyth, as a fellow-feeler, in sympathy. 1773 Public Advertiser 22 Mar. I will candidly admit that I am, in some Degree, a Fellow-Feeler. 1842 Amer. Turf Reg. Nov. 632 He knew his men. He was..an enjoyer of their sports, a fellow feeler of their cares and pleasures. 1876 London Society Feb. 147/2 I like to meet a fellow-feeler whose society is congenial. 1913 E. Phillpotts Joy of Youth ii. 18 Kindred spirits dwelt in the county, but she knew them not. No machinery existed..to bring fellow-feelers together. 1969 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Sept. 1077/4 Herr Ziesel and his fellow-feelers will find very little to object to this time. 2011 Huntingdon Libr. Q. 74 248 A psychological mode of sympathetic healing..harms the fellow-feeler more than it helps the sufferer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1581 |
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