sympathyn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪmpəθi/, U.S.

/ˈsɪmpəθi/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sim-, -ie.

Etymology: < late Latin sympathia, < Greek συμπάθεια , < συμπαθής having a fellow feeling, < σύν sym- prefix + παθ-, root of πάθος suffering, feeling, πάσχειν to suffer. Compare French sympathie (from 15th cent.), Italian simpatia, Spanish simpatia, Portuguese sympathia.

a. A (real or supposed) affinity between certain things, by virtue of which they are similarly or correspondingly affected by the same influence, affect or influence one another (esp. in some occult way), or attract or tend towards each other. Obsolete exc. Historical or as merged in other senses. powder of sympathy (sympathy-powder), a powder supposed to heal wounds by ‘sympathy’ on being applied to a handkerchief or garment stained with blood from the wound, or to the weapon with which the wound was inflicted: also called sympathetic powder (see sympathetic adj. 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness

cousinagea1398

alliancea1475

affinityc1485

propinquitya1500

societya1513

kindred1528

cognationa1555

affinitive1579

sympathya1586

vicinity1594

affiance1597

contingence1612

contingency1612

congeniality1620

umbilicality1646

consanguinity1651

congeneracy1664

gossipred1674

congenerousness1677

closeness1692

intimacy1720

proximity1762

liaison1809

cousinship1848

affiliation1870

kinship1876

1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule Ep. Ded. sig. Aiv^v Plato also testifieth suche a Sympathia to be betweene the bodye and the soule, that if either exceede the meane, the one suffereth with the other.]

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xviii. sig. Ss3^v His Impresa was a Catoblepta, which so long lies dead, as the Moone (whereto it hath so naturall a sympathie) wants her light.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Explan. A vj b Sympathie, i. a fellow-feeling, used in Plinie for the agreement or amitie naturall in divers senselesse things, as betweene yron and the loadstone.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. i. 175 In every..corner of the world there may be observed both sympathies and antipathies (I meane those naturall combinations and contrarieties in those her creatures).

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xii. 431 Crabbes heere with vs haue a sympathy with the Moone, and are fullest with her fulnes.

1658 R. White tr. K. Digby (title) A late discourse made..in France..touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy.

1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden iii. ii. 43 I have Sympathy-powder about me, if you will give me your handkercher while the blood is warm, will cure it immediately.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 53. ⁋3 Those Applications which are said to convey their virtues by Sympathy.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 181 The cures said to have been performed by magnetic sympathy.

1883 W. G. Black Folk-med. iii. 50 That doctrine of sympathy which accompanies all remedies by association.

b. Physiology and Pathology. A relation between two bodily organs or parts (or between two persons) such that disorder, or any condition, of the one induces a corresponding condition in the other.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > specific relation between

sympathy1603

consent1615

consensus1854

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > correlation or sympathy between parts

sympathy1603

associability1865

symmetry1886

1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Sympathie, that is to say, A fellow feeling, as is between the head and stomacke.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vii. i. 146 Breathing is hindered by sympathy or consent from other parts.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 47 The Sympathy between the Kidneys and the Stomach, as when persons diseased in their Kidneys, are troubled with Stomach-sickness and vomiting.

1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 2) ii. iv. 161 The sympathy between them [sc. the skin and the mucous coat of the alimentary canal] is..very rapid and intimate. Eruptions on the skin, for example, are almost always owing to disorder of the digestive organs; and bowel-complaint, on the other hand, is often produced by a sudden chill on the surface.

1871 A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 167 The child should be put to the breast..as this.., through the sympathy between the breast and uterus, is sure to excite uterine action.

c. Commerce. In in sympathy with, used in market reports in reference to a rise or fall in the price of a commodity induced by a rise or fall in that of another, or by some event or circumstance.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [phrase] > referring to rise or fall of trade

in sympathy with1897

1897 Daily News 7 May 7/2 Corn opened easy, with July ¹/ ₈c. down.., but recovered in sympathy with wheat.

1912 Times 19 Dec. 20/4 Lard... American refined in pails is easier in sympathy with advices from the other side.

2. Agreement, accord, harmony, consonance, concord; agreement in qualities, likeness, conformity, correspondence. Obsolete or merged in 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]

accordmentc1330

accorda1398

consonancya1398

unitya1398

accordancea1400

commoningc1400

convenience1413

correspondence1413

answeringc1425

conformityc1430

consonance1430

congruity1447

concordancec1450

consonantc1475

agreement1495

monochordc1500

conveniencya1513

agreeance1525

agreeableness1531

concinnity1531

congruence1533

harmony?1533

concent1563

tunableness1569

agreeing1575

answerableness1577

concert1578

consent1578

sympathy1578

concord1579

symphonia1579

correspondency1589

atone1595

coherence1597

respondence1598

symphony1598

sortance1600

coherency1603

respondency1603

symbolizing1605

coaptation1614

compositiona1616

sympathizing1632

comportance1648

compliance1649

syntax1649

concinneness1655

symmetry1655

homology1656

consistency1659

consentaneousness1660

consistence1670

comportment1675

harmoniousness1679

symbolism1722

congruousness1727

accordancy1790

sameness1790

consentaneity1798

consilience1840

chime1847

consensus1854

solidarity1874

synchromesh1966

concordancing1976

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. sig. Eviii If he had bene aunswerd with a sympathia or equalitie of frendshipp.

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. xiii. 247 Whereof [sc. of the passion or fever of love] there seamed alredie a sympathia, or equalitie, betwene the two younglinges.

1574 J. Jones Briefe Disc. Growing & Liuing Things 29 Of the good effectes, Simpathia, vnity, agreements of the spirites, humors and members, health is..preserued.]

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 9 Doth not the sympathy of manners, make the coniunction of mindes?

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. x. 70 If it please the eare well, the same represented by delineation to the view pleaseth the eye well..: and this is by a naturall simpathie, betweene the eare and the eye, and betweene tunes & colours, euen as there is the like betweene the other sences and their obiects.

1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 34 Iuball exercised Musike, and spent his time in practising the simpathy of sundry soundes.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 148 Oh what a simpathie of woe is this.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 85 Oh he is euen in my Mistresse case..Oh wofull simpathy.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 7 You are not yong, no more am I: goe to then, there's simpathie .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 230 There should be..sympathy in yeares, manners and beauties; all which the Moore is defectiue in.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 135 I think there was a kind of a Sympathy betwixt that Valley and him.

1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. xi. 324 He was strongly attached by sympathy of manners to the princes.

1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) xii. 159 One of those sympathies of colour which are often finer than contrast.

a. Conformity of feelings, inclinations, or temperament, which makes persons agreeable to each other; community of feeling; harmony of disposition.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > quality of being agreeable or affable > conformity of feelings causing agreeableness

sympathy1596

1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 199 Loue is a celestiall harmonie, Of likely harts..Which ioyne together in sweete sympathie, To worke ech others ioy and true content.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller i. i So sweet a simpathie, As crownes a noble marriage.

1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. viii. 144 There is..a social Sympathy in the Soul of Man, which prompts..individuals..to congregate, and form themselves into Tribes.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 51 The sympathies and antipathies, the whims and prejudices that..haunt us.

1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek ii. 26 It was impossible that there could be much sympathy between two men so unlike.

1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) x. 206 They enjoy the sympathy of kindred souls.

b. The quality or state of being affected by the condition of another with a feeling similar or corresponding to that of the other; the fact or capacity of entering into or sharing the feelings of another or others; fellow-feeling. Also, a feeling or frame of mind evoked by and responsive to some external influence. Const. with (a person, etc., or a feeling).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > [noun]

pityc1300

consentc1384

fellow-feeling1578

sympathy1662

homopathy1678

identification1840

sympneumatism1891

panpathy1900

feeling1909

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) p. x Out of faithful and true simpathy and fellow-feeling with you.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 465 With answering looks Of sympathie and love.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 540 Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathie .

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §13. 21 Sympathy must be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in a good measure as he is affected.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 1 There is in souls a sympathy with sounds..Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.

1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 30 Aug. For compassion a human heart suffices: but for full and adequate sympathy with joy, an angel's only.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. v. 447 Our sympathies are naturally on the side of the weak and the unsuccessful.

1859 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 277 Such depth and breadth of sympathy with Nature.

1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iii. 99 A cheerful disposition..leads to sympathy with others in all the smaller concerns of life.

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xvi. 136 The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 76 A favourite daughter, to whom he turned on all occasions for sympathy and affection.

c. spec. The quality or state of being thus affected by the suffering or sorrow of another; a feeling of compassion or commiseration. Const. for, with (a person), for, in, with, †rarely of (an event, experience, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy

compassion1340

compatience1398

fellow-feeling1578

sympathy1600

condolence1603

condolencya1631

compassivity1667

1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. D2 The showres which daily from mine eyes are raining, Draw the dum creatures to a sympathie.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 34 A kind of Sympathy in the River for the Death of Adonis.

1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett II. lxxii. 109 I wanted to express my sympathy of your present misfortune.

1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1808) IV. 20 To awaken something of sympathy for the unfortunate natives.

1796 E. Burke Let. 23 Nov. in Corr. (1970) IX. 129 Your sympathy makes our ill-health a great deal more tolerable.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xlviii. 323 They have..little sympathy for distresses which they have never felt.

1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. II. vii. 269 [Ld. Peterborough] Joining in the amusements of others is..the next thing to sympathy in their distresses.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiii. 121 Canst thou feel for me Some painless sympathy with pain?

1872 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) II. 381 Every expression of human sympathy brings some little comfort.

1893 Academy 30 Dec. 581/1 Sympathy with the bereaved parents and for the bride was..deeply felt.

d. In weakened sense: A favourable attitude of mind towards a party, cause, etc.; disposition to agree or approve. Const. with, rarely for, in.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [noun] > disposition to approve

plausibilitya1558

friendliness1558

sympathy1823

favour1827

favourableness1832

appreciativeness1849

approbativeness1860

1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 526 Their sympathy in the instinct and principle by which it was carried on.

1838 F. B. Head Narrative 9 Feb. (1839) xi. 384 American ‘sympathy’ for our absconded [Canadian] traitors was unbridled and unchecked.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance ix. 95 Priscilla's silent sympathy with his purposes, so unalloyed with criticism.

1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1904) i. 8/2 In his [sc. Whately's] special theological tenets I had no sympathy.

1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 293 He had no sympathy with the anti-opium party.

Compounds

sympathy card n. a printed card expressing condolence on a bereavement.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > letter > card > [noun]

card1596

message card1746

birthday card1797

view card1822

acceptance1837

Easter card1842

wedding-cards1847

comic1860

postcard1869

letter card1870

postal card1870

pc1876

postal1877

note-card1884

photo card1890

greeting-card1898

picture postcard1899

seaside postcard1955

sympathy card1967

1967 ‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon (1968) x. 102 ‘Sympathy cards? Oh yes.’ I remembered now. She wrote greeting card verses.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 27 June 3– d/4 I left it in a phone booth while I was writing a sympathy card to be mailed.

sympathy strike n. = sympathetic strike at sympathetic adj. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > other types of strike

stay-away1867

sympathetic strike1899

stay-in1915

sympathy strike1937

token strike1947

hiccup strike1950

token stoppage1954

stay-at-home1959

1937 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Mar. 2/3 200 women in the South Unit sewing department..struck because of a wage dispute. Some 280 other women seamstresses in the North Unit staged a one-hour ‘sympathy strike’.

1981 Sunday Tel. 22 Mar. 6/6 The first sympathy strike by students of an American university has been organised in support of demands made by students on strike at a brother-campus in Britain.

sympathy striker n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > types of

stay-in1915

wildcat striker1945

wild-catter1966

sympathy striker1973

1973 Morning Star 28 Aug. 3 (heading) Chrysler hit by sympathy strikers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sympathy
释义	sympathyn. Brit. /ˈsɪmpəθi/, U.S. /ˈsɪmpəθi/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sim-, -ie. Etymology: < late Latin sympathia, < Greek συμπάθεια , < συμπαθής having a fellow feeling, < σύν sym- prefix + παθ-, root of πάθος suffering, feeling, πάσχειν to suffer. Compare French sympathie (from 15th cent.), Italian simpatia, Spanish simpatia, Portuguese sympathia. 1. a. A (real or supposed) affinity between certain things, by virtue of which they are similarly or correspondingly affected by the same influence, affect or influence one another (esp. in some occult way), or attract or tend towards each other. Obsolete exc. Historical or as merged in other senses. powder of sympathy (sympathy-powder), a powder supposed to heal wounds by ‘sympathy’ on being applied to a handkerchief or garment stained with blood from the wound, or to the weapon with which the wound was inflicted: also called sympathetic powder (see sympathetic adj. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness cousinagea1398 alliancea1475 affinityc1485 propinquitya1500 societya1513 kindred1528 cognationa1555 affinitive1579 sympathya1586 vicinity1594 affiance1597 contingence1612 contingency1612 congeniality1620 umbilicality1646 consanguinity1651 congeneracy1664 gossipred1674 congenerousness1677 closeness1692 intimacy1720 proximity1762 liaison1809 cousinship1848 affiliation1870 kinship1876 1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule Ep. Ded. sig. Aiv^v Plato also testifieth suche a Sympathia to be betweene the bodye and the soule, that if either exceede the meane, the one suffereth with the other.] a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xviii. sig. Ss3^v His Impresa was a Catoblepta, which so long lies dead, as the Moone (whereto it hath so naturall a sympathie) wants her light. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Explan. A vj b Sympathie, i. a fellow-feeling, used in Plinie for the agreement or amitie naturall in divers senselesse things, as betweene yron and the loadstone. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. i. 175 In every..corner of the world there may be observed both sympathies and antipathies (I meane those naturall combinations and contrarieties in those her creatures). 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xii. 431 Crabbes heere with vs haue a sympathy with the Moone, and are fullest with her fulnes. 1658 R. White tr. K. Digby (title) A late discourse made..in France..touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy. 1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden iii. ii. 43 I have Sympathy-powder about me, if you will give me your handkercher while the blood is warm, will cure it immediately. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 53. ⁋3 Those Applications which are said to convey their virtues by Sympathy. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 181 The cures said to have been performed by magnetic sympathy. 1883 W. G. Black Folk-med. iii. 50 That doctrine of sympathy which accompanies all remedies by association. b. Physiology and Pathology. A relation between two bodily organs or parts (or between two persons) such that disorder, or any condition, of the one induces a corresponding condition in the other. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > specific relation between sympathy1603 consent1615 consensus1854 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > correlation or sympathy between parts sympathy1603 associability1865 symmetry1886 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Sympathie, that is to say, A fellow feeling, as is between the head and stomacke. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vii. i. 146 Breathing is hindered by sympathy or consent from other parts. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 47 The Sympathy between the Kidneys and the Stomach, as when persons diseased in their Kidneys, are troubled with Stomach-sickness and vomiting. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 2) ii. iv. 161 The sympathy between them [sc. the skin and the mucous coat of the alimentary canal] is..very rapid and intimate. Eruptions on the skin, for example, are almost always owing to disorder of the digestive organs; and bowel-complaint, on the other hand, is often produced by a sudden chill on the surface. 1871 A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 167 The child should be put to the breast..as this.., through the sympathy between the breast and uterus, is sure to excite uterine action. c. Commerce. In in sympathy with, used in market reports in reference to a rise or fall in the price of a commodity induced by a rise or fall in that of another, or by some event or circumstance. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [phrase] > referring to rise or fall of trade in sympathy with1897 1897 Daily News 7 May 7/2 Corn opened easy, with July ¹/ ₈c. down.., but recovered in sympathy with wheat. 1912 Times 19 Dec. 20/4 Lard... American refined in pails is easier in sympathy with advices from the other side. 2. Agreement, accord, harmony, consonance, concord; agreement in qualities, likeness, conformity, correspondence. Obsolete or merged in 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. sig. Eviii If he had bene aunswerd with a sympathia or equalitie of frendshipp. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. xiii. 247 Whereof [sc. of the passion or fever of love] there seamed alredie a sympathia, or equalitie, betwene the two younglinges. 1574 J. Jones Briefe Disc. Growing & Liuing Things 29 Of the good effectes, Simpathia, vnity, agreements of the spirites, humors and members, health is..preserued.] 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 9 Doth not the sympathy of manners, make the coniunction of mindes? 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. x. 70 If it please the eare well, the same represented by delineation to the view pleaseth the eye well..: and this is by a naturall simpathie, betweene the eare and the eye, and betweene tunes & colours, euen as there is the like betweene the other sences and their obiects. 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 34 Iuball exercised Musike, and spent his time in practising the simpathy of sundry soundes. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 148 Oh what a simpathie of woe is this. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 85 Oh he is euen in my Mistresse case..Oh wofull simpathy. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 7 You are not yong, no more am I: goe to then, there's simpathie . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 230 There should be..sympathy in yeares, manners and beauties; all which the Moore is defectiue in. View more context for this quotation 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 135 I think there was a kind of a Sympathy betwixt that Valley and him. View more context for this quotation 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. xi. 324 He was strongly attached by sympathy of manners to the princes. 1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) xii. 159 One of those sympathies of colour which are often finer than contrast. 3. a. Conformity of feelings, inclinations, or temperament, which makes persons agreeable to each other; community of feeling; harmony of disposition. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > quality of being agreeable or affable > conformity of feelings causing agreeableness sympathy1596 1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 199 Loue is a celestiall harmonie, Of likely harts..Which ioyne together in sweete sympathie, To worke ech others ioy and true content. 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller i. i So sweet a simpathie, As crownes a noble marriage. 1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. viii. 144 There is..a social Sympathy in the Soul of Man, which prompts..individuals..to congregate, and form themselves into Tribes. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 51 The sympathies and antipathies, the whims and prejudices that..haunt us. 1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek ii. 26 It was impossible that there could be much sympathy between two men so unlike. 1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) x. 206 They enjoy the sympathy of kindred souls. b. The quality or state of being affected by the condition of another with a feeling similar or corresponding to that of the other; the fact or capacity of entering into or sharing the feelings of another or others; fellow-feeling. Also, a feeling or frame of mind evoked by and responsive to some external influence. Const. with (a person, etc., or a feeling). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > [noun] pityc1300 consentc1384 fellow-feeling1578 sympathy1662 homopathy1678 identification1840 sympneumatism1891 panpathy1900 feeling1909 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) p. x Out of faithful and true simpathy and fellow-feeling with you. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 465 With answering looks Of sympathie and love. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 540 Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathie . View more context for this quotation 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §13. 21 Sympathy must be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in a good measure as he is affected. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 1 There is in souls a sympathy with sounds..Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies. 1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 30 Aug. For compassion a human heart suffices: but for full and adequate sympathy with joy, an angel's only. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. v. 447 Our sympathies are naturally on the side of the weak and the unsuccessful. 1859 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 277 Such depth and breadth of sympathy with Nature. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iii. 99 A cheerful disposition..leads to sympathy with others in all the smaller concerns of life. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xvi. 136 The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. 1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 76 A favourite daughter, to whom he turned on all occasions for sympathy and affection. c. spec. The quality or state of being thus affected by the suffering or sorrow of another; a feeling of compassion or commiseration. Const. for, with (a person), for, in, with, †rarely of (an event, experience, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy compassion1340 compatience1398 fellow-feeling1578 sympathy1600 condolence1603 condolencya1631 compassivity1667 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. D2 The showres which daily from mine eyes are raining, Draw the dum creatures to a sympathie. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 34 A kind of Sympathy in the River for the Death of Adonis. 1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett II. lxxii. 109 I wanted to express my sympathy of your present misfortune. 1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1808) IV. 20 To awaken something of sympathy for the unfortunate natives. 1796 E. Burke Let. 23 Nov. in Corr. (1970) IX. 129 Your sympathy makes our ill-health a great deal more tolerable. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xlviii. 323 They have..little sympathy for distresses which they have never felt. 1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. II. vii. 269 [Ld. Peterborough] Joining in the amusements of others is..the next thing to sympathy in their distresses. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiii. 121 Canst thou feel for me Some painless sympathy with pain? View more context for this quotation 1872 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) II. 381 Every expression of human sympathy brings some little comfort. 1893 Academy 30 Dec. 581/1 Sympathy with the bereaved parents and for the bride was..deeply felt. d. In weakened sense: A favourable attitude of mind towards a party, cause, etc.; disposition to agree or approve. Const. with, rarely for, in. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [noun] > disposition to approve plausibilitya1558 friendliness1558 sympathy1823 favour1827 favourableness1832 appreciativeness1849 approbativeness1860 1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 526 Their sympathy in the instinct and principle by which it was carried on. 1838 F. B. Head Narrative 9 Feb. (1839) xi. 384 American ‘sympathy’ for our absconded [Canadian] traitors was unbridled and unchecked. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance ix. 95 Priscilla's silent sympathy with his purposes, so unalloyed with criticism. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1904) i. 8/2 In his [sc. Whately's] special theological tenets I had no sympathy. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 293 He had no sympathy with the anti-opium party. Compounds sympathy card n. a printed card expressing condolence on a bereavement. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > card > [noun] card1596 message card1746 birthday card1797 view card1822 acceptance1837 Easter card1842 wedding-cards1847 comic1860 postcard1869 letter card1870 postal card1870 pc1876 postal1877 note-card1884 photo card1890 greeting-card1898 picture postcard1899 seaside postcard1955 sympathy card1967 1967 ‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon (1968) x. 102 ‘Sympathy cards? Oh yes.’ I remembered now. She wrote greeting card verses. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 27 June 3– d/4 I left it in a phone booth while I was writing a sympathy card to be mailed. sympathy strike n. = sympathetic strike at sympathetic adj. 3b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > other types of strike stay-away1867 sympathetic strike1899 stay-in1915 sympathy strike1937 token strike1947 hiccup strike1950 token stoppage1954 stay-at-home1959 1937 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Mar. 2/3 200 women in the South Unit sewing department..struck because of a wage dispute. Some 280 other women seamstresses in the North Unit staged a one-hour ‘sympathy strike’. 1981 Sunday Tel. 22 Mar. 6/6 The first sympathy strike by students of an American university has been organised in support of demands made by students on strike at a brother-campus in Britain. sympathy striker n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > types of stay-in1915 wildcat striker1945 wild-catter1966 sympathy striker1973 1973 Morning Star 28 Aug. 3 (heading) Chrysler hit by sympathy strikers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † sympathyv. Etymology: < sympathy n. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To have ‘sympathy’ or affinity; to agree in nature or qualities (with something). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] conspirec1384 accorda1393 to stand with ——c1449 to sit with ——a1500 correspond1545 resound1575 square1583 quader1588 to comport with1591 sympathize1594 beset1597 range1600 even1602 consort1607 to run with ——1614 countenancea1616 hita1616 sympathy1615 filea1625 quadrate?1630 consist1638 commensurate1643 commensure1654 to strike in1704 jig1838 harmonize1852 chime in with1861 equate1934 to tie in1938 to tune in1938 to tie up1958 1615 N. Breton Char. vpon Ess. 19 It [sc. love] simpathies with life, and participates with light, when the eye of the minde sees the ioy of the heart. a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse ii. iii. 30 in Poems (1638) Pleasures, that are not mans, as man is man, But as his nature sympathies with beasts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1578v.1615
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