English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "deernisvol" is om simpatie en besorgdheid te hê vir ander wat ly of probleme ondervind. Dit is 'n kwaliteit of gedrag wat 'n diep bewustheid van die gevoelens en behoeftes van ander behels, en 'n begeerte om hul pyn of lyding te verlig. 'n Deernisvolle persoon is iemand wat vriendelik, omgee en begripvol is, en wat bereid is om hulp en ondersteuning aan behoeftiges te bied.

Sentence Examples

  1. One will pass all the hours of the night seated at the foot of some oak or rock, and there, without having closed his weeping eyes, the sun finds him in the morning bemused and bereft of sense and another without relief or respite to his sighs, stretched on the burning sand in the full heat of the sultry summer noontide, makes his appeal to the compassionate heavens, and over one and the other, over these and all, the beautiful Marcela triumphs free and careless.
  2. They then brought him his ass, and mounting him on top of it they put his jacket round him and the compassionate Maritornes, seeing him so exhausted, thought fit to refresh him with a jug of water, and that it might be all the cooler she fetched it from the well.
  3. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.
  4. She is composed and compassionate as she presses cold cloths to his forehead and changes his damp shirts.
  5. Enchanters and magicians and their kind Are mostly hard of heart not so am I For mine is tender, soft, compassionate, And its delight is doing good to all.
  6. He must know mathematics, for at every turn some occasion for them will present itself to him and, putting it aside that he must be adorned with all the virtues, cardinal and theological, to come down to minor particulars, he must, I say, be able to swim as well as Nicholas or Nicolao the Fish could, as the story goes he must know how to shoe a horse, and repair his saddle and bridle and, to return to higher matters, he must be faithful to God and to his lady he must be pure in thought, decorous in words, generous in works, valiant in deeds, patient in suffering, compassionate towards the needy, and, lastly, an upholder of the truth though its defence should cost him his life.
  7. But the compassionate feelings of a friend of her father gave a change to her destiny.
  8. Acting upon those lessons hammers them home and makes you a more honest, compassionate, and value-driven human being.
  9. But you see how compassionate heaven sends aid in our sorest need Don Gaiferos advances, and without minding whether the rich petticoat is torn or not, he seizes her and by force brings her to the ground, and then with one jerk places her on the haunches of his horse, astraddle like a man, and bids her hold on tight and clasp her arms round his neck, crossing them on his breast so as not to fall, for the lady Melisendra was not used to that style of riding.
  10. Emma was very compassionate and the distresses of the poor were as sure of relief from her personal attention and kindness, her counsel and her patience, as from her purse.