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So the word “compass,” which we primarily think of as a nautical, wayfaring tool, a way to sense direction, actually comes from compasser which is is together and then step or pace, so the combination of those things. And it seems like it must have the same etymological root as compassion, but compassion comes from together + passion and pass…
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