SYMPATHIES

Definition: SYMPATHIES

SYMPATHIES

Plural

1. Of Sympathy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SYMPATHIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Crosswords: SYMPATHIES

I can't speak for your chances, but you have my sympathies. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

Sympathies i'm ready to return (Thirty-Three; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

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But of late, since the night of his vigil, all her sympathies towards him had been both softened and invigorated.

I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions.

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Civil Liberties

Fiji

The Church has displayed strong nationalist sympathies, and a letter of support from the head of the Methodist Church, Reverend Tomasi Kanilagi, to George Speight, the leader of the May 2000 armed takeover of Parliament, was made public in the press in June. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Indian sympathies lay with East Pakistan, and in November, India intervened on the side of the Bangladeshis. (references)

Zambia

Zambia's sympathies lay with forces opposing colonial or white-dominated rule, particularly in Southern Rhodesia. (references)

Human Rights

East Timor

It is believed that these were retaliatory killings related to the two men's pro-autonomy sympathies. (references)

Nicaragua

Judges' political sympathies or acceptance of bribes reportedly often influenced judicial actions and findings. (references)

Algeria

An unknown number of persons who could be considered political prisoners are serving prison sentences because of their Islamist sympathies and membership in the FIS. (references)

Minorities

Iran

Kurds often are suspected by government authorities of harboring separatist or foreign sympathies. (references)

Eritrea

Because of the existence of a Kunama opposition group operating in Ethiopia and supported by the Ethiopian Government, some Kunama in the country are suspected of supporting or having sympathies with the Ethiopian Government. (references)

Political Economy

China

The human rights situation in Tibet remained poor, as the Government continued its campaign to reeducate monks and nuns with sympathies to the Dalai Lama. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "SYMPATHIES": political sympathies. Additional references.

Chinese 

同情 (sympathize, Sympathized, Sympathizing, sympathy). (various references)

German

Sympathien, Mitgefühle. (various references)

Korean 

교감 (sympathy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ympathiessay

Russian 

ссимпатия;соболезнование. (various references)

Turkish

sevgi (affection, affections, attachment, compassion, dearness, fondness, love, piety, sympathy), taziye (condolence), ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, care, concern, connection, connexion, curiosity, interest, involvement, liking, pertinence, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevance, relevancy, respect, solicitude, sympathy, thought), başsağlığı (condolatory, condolence). (various references)

Misspellings

"SYMPATHIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: myopathies, sympathise. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sympathise.

-1 letter: mateships, shipmates, steamship.

-2 letters: atheisms, emphasis, epistasy, impastes, mateship, misshape, mistypes, pastimes, shipmate.

-3 letters: aphesis, ashiest, atheism, empathy, impasse, impaste, mashies, messiah, miseats, mishaps, misseat, misstep, mistype, myiases, pasties, pastime, patsies, petsais, pyemias, samites, spathes, stymies, tamises, tapises, theisms.

-4 letters: aspish, hastes, heists, maists, mashes, mashie, mateys, mayest, misate, miseat, mishap, missay, misset, myases.

+1 letter: metaphysics, sympathised, sympathises, sympathizes.

+2 letters: scyphistomae, sympathetics, sympathizers.

+4 letters: amphiprostyles, metaphysicians.

+5 letters: hyperparasitism, hyperstimulates, lymphadenitises, sympathectomies.