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  • noun Plural form of sympathy.

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Examples

  • No -- even putting aside what you call my sympathies and my loyalty to the

    Saracinesca 1881

  • Knowledge about their political sympathies is further evidence;

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010

  • When talking with – or more commonly about – Obama, he's got terrorist sympathies, is intentionally running this country into the ground, is a closet socialist, is setting up death panels, blah blah blah.

    Clinton would 'look forward' to Palin sit down 2009

  • Thanks so much to Scott, the ELR team, and the earnest sympathies from the ELR fans.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another sad day for ELR fans 2007

  • It's a lot of kvetching, all the more annoying because its demand on our sympathies is so obvious.

    Out of Our Dreams 2002

  • It's a lot of kvetching, all the more annoying because its demand on our sympathies is so obvious.

    Out of Our Dreams 2002

  • He was a man endowed to excite it in the most effective manner, to a degree fearful enough to win English sympathies despite his un-English faults.

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • He was a man endowed to excite it in the most effective manner, to a degree fearful enough to win English sympathies despite his un-English faults.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • We are conscious of no inclination to allow the unreasonable petulance into which the baffled hopes of a young and self-confident community have temporarily betrayed it to alienate our sympathies from the principles with which, whether it means so or not, its conduct in this struggle is inseparably identified.

    Northern Reverses. 1862

  • In this temperament those associations of motions, which are commonly termed sympathies, act with greater certainty and energy, as those between disturbed vision and the inversion of the motion of the stomach, as in sea-sickness; and the pains in the shoulder from hepatic inflammation.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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