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Comiserate vs Commiserate - What's the difference?

comiserate | commiserate |

Commiserate is a alternative form of comiserate.



As verbs the difference between comiserate and commiserate

is that comiserate is obsolete spelling of lang=en while commiserate is to feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).

As an adjective commiserate is

commiserating, pitying, lamentful.

comiserate

English

Verb

(head)
  • Usage notes

    * Recent uses of this form are misspellings. English misspellings

    commiserate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From , the perfect passive participle of commiseror.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, rare) commiserating, pitying, lamentful
  • * 1593 : , Christ’s Teares over Jerusalem , page 157 (1815 edited republication)
  • In the time of Gregory Nazianzene, if we may credit ecclesiastical records, there sprung up the direfulest mortality in Rome that mankind hath been acquainted with; scarce able were the living to bury the dead, and not so much but their streets were digged up for graves, which this holy Father (with no little commiserate heart-bleeding) beholding, commanded all the clergy (for he was at that time their chief bishop) to assemble in prayer and supplications, and deal forcingly beseeching with God, to intermit his fury and forgive them.

    References

    * “ †co?mmiserate, ppl. a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    Modelled upon , the perfect passive participial stem of the (etyl) commiseror.

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete spelling and modern misspelling) * (l) (obsolete spelling and modern misspelling)

    Verb

  • To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
  • (ambitransitive) To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.
  • To sympathize; condole.
  • Derived terms
    * (l), (l) * (l)

    References

    * “ commiserate, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989