noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Compassion & Choices
compassion fatigue
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Some donors, battered by so many appeals for help, may find themselves battling compassion fatigue.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Both had a great compassion for men in their frustrations, sufferings and lostness.
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Second, he has the rare quality of inner toughness and great compassion .
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This is based upon the belief that older people are treated with greater compassion now than ever before.
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The Marques de la Colina, who has overseen the trial, feels great compassion for Jacinto.
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People are showing me great compassion and I appreciate it ... but it is too awful to talk about.
■ VERB
feel
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It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion, for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
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Both Lucy and Linus feel compassion , but only Linus acts compassionately.
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She didn't want to feel warmth or compassion for Nathan Bryce.
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It holds equally true that a compassionate act needs to be spurred by a feeling of compassion to be effective.
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I was feeling a certain compassion for him.
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He introduced feeling , compassion and pity to compensate for the loss of the comic element.
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To feel compassion for men without having been a separatist is dangerous.
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The Marques de la Colina, who has overseen the trial, feels great compassion for Jacinto.
show
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A debt counsellor who's been helping the family says the lender has shown no compassion .
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Too often we just remember the men throughout our history who have shown courage and compassion .
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When men show love and compassion they are surely showing the hidden and lasting beauty.
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People are showing me great compassion and I appreciate it ... but it is too awful to talk about.
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It was shameful when he could so easily have afforded to show compassion .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Of course we must insist on punishment, but the criminal must also be treated with compassion .
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Russell's father had no compassion for his son's physical disabilities.
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What are you doing now to show compassion toward the victims of torture?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A debt counsellor who's been helping the family says the lender has shown no compassion .
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Asking no questions they watched him, their master now, with compassion .
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But councillors will be told on Monday that a compromise linked with compassion may save it.
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It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion, for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
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Pepe has a lot in common with Boris, thought Ellis: they're both strong, cruel men without decency or compassion .
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That sense of compassion could vault to the surface very quickly if the economic miracle began to curdle.
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This is a place of compassion , a place of forgiveness.
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Through their journey, director Gregory Nava explores the contrasts between politics and compassion .