bowels of compassion
1compassion — n. Pity, commiseration, sympathy, tenderness, kindness, kindliness, clemency, fellow feeling, heart, tender heartedness, kind heartedness, mercy, bowels of compassion, melting mood …
2bowels — Human emotions were thought to be generated in the entrails; hence the AV translation ‘bowels’ in Phil. 2:1 etc. Modern custom speaks of the heart in a similar way. There is a literal physical usage in 2 Sam. 20:10 and Acts 1:18, but modern… …
3bowels — n. pl. 1. Intestines, entrails, viscera, inwards, guts. 2. Inside, interior, interior parts, midst. 3. Compassion, pity, tenderness, mercy, mercifulness, feeling, fellow feeling, sympathy …
4compassion — n pity, tenderness, heart, love, ruth, pathos, Archaic. bowels; clemency, lenity, leniency, mildness, easiness, gentleness; mercy, quarter, grace, exorability, placability, liberality; sympathy, commiseration, consolation, concern; kindliness,… …
5Pity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 pity pity compassion commiseration Sgm: N 1 bowels bowels of compassion Sgm: N 1 sympathy sympathy fellow feeling tenderness yearning forbearance …
6bowel — /ˈbaʊəl / (say bowuhl) noun 1. Anatomy a. an intestine. b. (usually plural) the parts of the alimentary canal below the stomach; the intestines or entrails. 2. the inward or interior parts: the bowels of the ship. –verb (t) (bowelled or, US …
7pity — I. n. 1. Compassion, commiseration, mercy, sympathy, fellow feeling, fellow suffering, condolence, bowels of compassion, melting mood. 2. Ground of pity, cause of grief, subject of pity. II. v. a. Commiserate, compassionate, sympathize with, feel …
8bow|els — «BOW uhlz, bowlz», noun (plural). 1. the tube in the body into which food passes from the stomach; intestines. 2. Informal. = colon. (Cf. ↑colon) 3. Figurative. the inner part of anything; depths: »Miners dig for coal in the bowels of the earth.… …
9gentleness — Synonyms and related words: abnegation, abstinence, acceptance, affability, airiness, amiability, ascent, bleeding heart, bonhomie, bowels of compassion, breeding, bubbliness, buoyancy, calm, calmness, clemency, clementness, compassion,… …
10mercifulness — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, bleeding heart, bowels of compassion, clemency, clementness, compassion, compassionateness, easiness, easygoingness, forbearance, forbearing, gentleness, humaneness, humanity, laxness, lenience, leniency,… …
