profound sympathy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofoundandsympathy
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profound
adjective
uk/prəˈfaʊnd/us/prəˈfaʊnd/
felt or experienced very strongly or in an ...
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sympathy
noun
uk/ˈsɪm.pə.θi/us/ˈsɪm.pə.θi/
(an expression of) understanding and care for someone ...
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(Definition ofprofoundandsympathyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Profoundsympathycan usually only follow upon profound suffering.
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They properly expressed their deep regret at the intelligence, and offeredprofoundsympathy.
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Then we can only tender ourprofoundsympathy.
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I wish to offer myprofoundsympathyto their parents.
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I haveprofoundsympathyfor the miners in this situation.
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We offer them ourprofoundsympathyand support.
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We must feelprofoundsympathyfor a small and gallant nation in the hour of their national grief and loss.
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I am trying to express myprofoundsympathywith his efforts and my earnest hopes that he will be successful.
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I cannot but feelprofoundsympathyfor those in small companies who have to wade through the rigmarole in practice.
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Ourprofoundsympathygoes out to the relatives and friends of these innocent victims of the evil and lawless.
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We extend ourprofoundsympathyto all those who have lost family or friends.
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There is the question of the single-man and the single-woman shopkeeper, with whom we haveprofoundsympathy.
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I have aprofoundsympathywith the general object that young people should be discouraged from starting to smoke.
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We all have the mostprofoundsympathyfor the blind.
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We cannot refrain from having the mostprofoundsympathy, particularly for the relatives of all of them.
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We can only offer him theprofoundsympathyof our hearts and accept with infinite sorrow the decision he has made.
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Even if you have no industry to organise, you shall have a scheme of organisation—a scheme on paper, printed alongside my expressions ofprofoundsympathy.
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Ourprofoundsympathyis with them all.
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