Condole vs Empathise - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between condole and empathise

is that condole is to grieve while empathise is .

(en-verb)

To grieve.

To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy.

* Sir W. Temple

Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you.

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(empathis)