compassion
noun
a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
uncompassion
-
a word derived from
compassion.
Example Sentences
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The empires that were founded upon uncompassion, through they swept the world in a decade, within a poor century or so were themselves swept away.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
