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Fellow-feeling

Fellow-feeling \Fel"low-feel"ing\, n.

  1. Sympathy; a like feeling.

  2. Joint interest. [Obs.]
    --Arbuthnot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fellow-feeling

1610s, an attempt to translate the sense of Latin compassio and Greek sympatheia. See fellow (n.) + feeling (n.). It yielded a back-formed verb, fellow-feel in 17c., mercifully short-lived.

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fellow-feeling

n. (alternative form of fellow feeling English)

Usage examples of "fellow-feeling".

Whatever the reason, there is no gainsaying the growth of fellow-feeling and of a curiosity founded on friendly interest,--both of which are revealed far more abundantly in our later literatures than in the earlier classics.

England, was passed, while not at Buckingham Palace, or elsewhere, in the smiddy of a somewhat blockish blacksmith, who has been unfortunate in business, and with whom Dawson discovered an infinite fund of fellow-feeling.

For the holy angels feel no anger while they punish those whom the eternal law of God consigns to punishment, no fellow-feeling with misery while they relieve the miserable, I no fear while they aid those who are in danger.

He and Hund, born and bred within twenty miles of each other, had a strong fellow-feeling.

They grinned at each other with the curious fellow-feeling that had grown between them, the small dark one and the tall fair one, each recognizing the other's delight in efficiency, in the exercise of pure intelligence.