What's the difference between compassion and spare?

Compassion


Definition:

  • (n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.
  • (v. t.) To pity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
  • (2) These boys showed a lack of compassion to our daughter and to their community as a whole."
  • (3) Speaking at a film festival in Dubai he said: "My compass has not stopped spinning," referring to the many policy switches made by the party he previously supported.
  • (4) The letter is particularly striking given that some of signatories are on the party's centre right, such as Progress and Policy Network, and others on the left, such as key figures at Compass and Class.
  • (5) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
  • (6) The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, said Islam did not need a reformation “since the normative principles and practices of the religion allow Muslims to harmoniously coexist within pluralist societies that are based on the universal values of compassion and justice”.
  • (7) What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse,” said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
  • (8) There has been a great deal of media coverage about the need for staff to demonstrate compassion.
  • (9) It seems that Mrs May’s vicarage upbringing has left her more than a little lacking in Christian compassion.
  • (10) When Malcolm Turnbull was asked about Asha specifically he said he wouldn’t comment on individual cases but that we’ll be treating all people with compassion.
  • (11) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
  • (12) I’m sure if my father was around, if he had the opportunity to meet her he would be reminding her that compassion was important, that ethics in public life was important, and that compromise was important.
  • (13) Staff do not always honour the pledge on compassion in the NHS Constitution to "respond with humanity and kindness to each person's pain, distress, anxiety or need", he added.
  • (14) More than that, the proposition acts as a compass for Labour policy proposals ie: "How does a particular policy contribute towards work, public income and a caring society?"
  • (15) In a letter to the prime minister he urged Cameron to show “compassion and human kindness” .
  • (16) It is essential, then, in order to lessen the tendency toward neurosis, that such women be treated with compassion, competence, patience and psychiatric care, and that they be made fully aware of surgical procedures and its consequences, as well as the advantages of eugenics.
  • (17) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
  • (18) But there is a difference between knowledge of other peoples and other times that is the result of understanding, compassion, careful study and analysis for their own sakes, and on the other hand knowledge that is part of an overall campaign of self-affirmation.
  • (19) For our government at the highest levels to suggest that when it comes to asylum seekers at sea there is no moral compass and no moral limit is not only astonishing and appalling but completely unacceptable,” he said.
  • (20) The norms, practices and capabilities of teams contribute to the formation of effective working relationships and determine whether there is a micro-climate that allows compassion to thrive.

Spare


Definition:

  • (a.) To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
  • (a.) To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
  • (a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
  • (a.) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
  • (a.) To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
  • (v. i.) To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
  • (v. i.) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
  • (v. i.) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
  • (v. t.) Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
  • (v. t.) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
  • (v. t.) Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time.
  • (v. t.) Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
  • (v. t.) Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
  • (v. t.) Slow.
  • (n.) The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
  • (n.) Parsimony; frugal use.
  • (n.) An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
  • (n.) That which has not been used or expended.
  • (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (3) Vascular surgical procedures sparing renal parenchyma are relatively new, as the most common treatment for this condition had been nephrectomy.
  • (4) Juvenile diabetics appear to have fewer cutaneous abnormalities than adults who develop the disease, but the juvenile diabetic is not spared.
  • (5) On histopathologic examination there were microabscesses in the inner choroid and subretinal space, disrupting the outer retina but sparing the inner retina.
  • (6) Injuries due to fellatio must be considered as an etiological factor to hemorrhagic changes of the oral mucosa, and with a positive history, patients can be spared from other investigations.
  • (7) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
  • (8) Bipolar cells appeared to be spared from damage at these doses.
  • (9) However, hemodynamic effects of the compound, suggesting an oxygen sparing action, did not preclude the antifibrillatory effectiveness.
  • (10) I know you're busy, but spare a few minutes to read at least some of it.
  • (11) Sparing technique was used in all operations, carried out under local anesthesia with 2% procaine or trimecaine.
  • (12) A previous study has described considerable sparing of vision after combined optic tract and visual cortex lesions in cats.
  • (13) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
  • (14) The loss of muscarinic and the sparing of benzodiazepine receptors occurs in the temporal cortex of histologically normal brains in the absence of significant atrophy and of gross dementia.
  • (15) Muscle sparing thoracotomy can be used safely for most thoracic procedures and we believe it permits easier pain control and early preservation of full shoulder motion.
  • (16) However, our studies suggest that much of the initial damage is extracellular, sparing nerve fiber layer axons.
  • (17) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
  • (18) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.
  • (19) Not only are the treatment results with regional hyperthermic perfusions excellent for both primary and locally recurrent sarcomas of the extremities, but limbs previously considered unsalvagable can be spared.
  • (20) The isointensity bands in the ischemic area on T2-weighted images showed the spared transverse fibers originating from the contralateral pontine nuclei, and this may explain the cause of the unilateral ataxia.