commiseration

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMMISERATION, noun Pity; compassion; a sympathetic suffering of pain or sorrow for the wants, afflictions or distresses of another. I cannot think of these poor deluded creatures, but with commiseration
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