compassionate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).

   • The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate
   • As a compassionate Turcoyse which doth tell By looking pale, the wearer is not well,
2. 2

   Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family.

   • compassionate leave; a compassionate visa
3. 3

   Inviting or asking for pity.

   • It boots thee not to be compassionate: After our sentence plaining comes too late.
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   1. 4

      To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something)

      To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.

      • […] seeing them die so wofully in the flames, he compassionated them.
      • The Justice which Mr. Allworthy had executed on Partridge, at first met with universal Approbation; but no sooner had he felt its Consequences, than his Neighbours began to relent, and to compassionate his Case;
      • And yet I could not help bitterly compassionating the honest fellow, brought to the gallows, as he was, strictly speaking, by the machinations of that devil incarnate, Mr. Tyrrel.

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