Sympathizer

Definitions

1. A person who sympathizes (with a political cause, a side in a conflict, etc.); a supporter.
   derogatory, often
2. A person who has, shows or expresses sympathy (with another person or people); a person who enters into the feelings of another.
   archaic

Equivalents

11 more languages

العربيةالمتعاطف

Catalàsimpatitzant

Suomimyötäeläjä

हिन्दीहमदर्दी

Bahasa Indonesiasimpatisan

Kurdîsempatîzan

Nederlandssympathisant

Polskisympatyczkasympatyk

Русскийсимпатиза́нтсимпатиза́нткасочувствующаясочувствующийсторонниксторонница+ 3 more

Svenskasympatisör

Türkçeduygudaşsempatizan

Examples

“His reputation was ruined when it was revealed that he had been a Nazi sympathizer before the war.”

“[…] she exposed herself to the fury of the sympathizers with slavery, without fear, and suffered their blows without flinching.”

“‘[…] And I tell⟳ you that the slightest suspicion of my loyalty could be ruin for me, ruin! If it were ever breathed that I were even a sympathiser with this rebellion, there iss an end⟳ of me.’”

“The Ardent Spirit pupils now belong⟳ to him alone and through them he’ll set⟳ his plans in motion, moulding them to be warrior saints, brilliant in deceit against the West and its sympathisers here at home.”

“[…] it is a sad case when the truly godly, who are cordial sympathizers, and earnest intercessours in the straits of a Nation, are stricken dumb in a day of calamity […]”

“[…] I am a sympathizer in every part of thy distress, except (and yet it is cruel to say⟳ it) in That which arises from thy guilt.”

“Not a mood of his but what found a ready sympathiser in Margaret; not a wish⟳ of his that she did not strive to forecast, and to fulfil.”

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