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Webster 1913 Edition


Sympathetically

Symˊpa-thet′ic-al-ly

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adv.
In a sympathetic manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sympathetically

SYMPATHET'ICALLY

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adv.
With sympathy or common feeling; inconsequence of sympathy; by communication from something else.

Definition 2024


sympathetically

sympathetically

English

Adverb

sympathetically (comparative more sympathetically, superlative most sympathetically)

  1. Owing to or showing evidence of "sympathy", or affinity; happening through or demonstrating correspondences, whether occult or physiological.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
  2. In a manner which demonstrates a sharing in the feelings of others; compassionately.

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