Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COM-MIS-ER-A'TION
COM-MIS'ER-A-TINGCOM-MIS'ER-A-TIVE-LY
COM-MIS-ER-A'TION, n.
Pity; compassion; a sympathetic suffering of pain or sorrow for the wants, afflictions or distresses of another. I can not think of these poor deluded creatures, but with commiseration.
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