compassions
Saykuhm-PASH-uhnz/kəmˈpæʃ.ənz/
- 1Plural of compassion. Rare, found chiefly in literary and religious writing.
The hymn praised divine compassions that are renewed every morning.
The old prayer book speaks of the Lord's tender compassions toward the poor.
Note
A plural for a noun that usually refuses one. Compassion is normally uncountable, so adding -s turns the feeling into separate acts or instances of mercy. That shift belongs mostly to elevated, literary or scriptural language. The same spelling once also served an obsolete verb meaning "to pity," as its third-person singular form, but that use has long since dropped away.
compassions is a form of compassion
compassion, noun: Deep awareness of another person's suffering, together with a wish to relieve it. Full entry
- Forms
- compassioncompassions plural
- Spelling
- compassion → compassions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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