Crossword clues for compassionately
compassionately
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compassionately \Com*pas"sion*ate*ly\, adv.
In a compassionate manner; mercifully.
--Clarendon.
Wiktionary
adv. In a compassionate manner.
WordNet
adv. in a compassionate manner; "the nurse looked at him pityingly" [syn: pityingly, with compassion, with pity]
Usage examples of "compassionately".
But should any officious functionary come down upon Fellside, this imbecility might be called madness, and the poor old creature whom you regard so compassionately, and whose case you think so pitiable here, would be carried off to a pauper lunatic asylum, which I can assure you would be a much worse imprisonment than Fellside Manor.
Only now those chords were transfigured, as though some Parnassian composer were compassionately correcting and magically transmuting the work of a dull pupil.
He raised his eyes and looked compassionately at Carlina, wishing she knew Bard as well as he did.
Indeed, Wigg thought, looking compassionately into the prince's dark eyes.
Wigg looked compassionately at the man across from him whom he loved so much, wishing that the other one could be here now, as well.
Wigg told him compassionately, hoping that the prince would give up the search so that they could be on their way.
In the pathos of this conviction he dwelt compassionately upon the thought of poor old Lindau.
Bird, compassionately, as the woman slowly unclosed her large, dark eyes, and looked vacantly at her.
George, stopping compassionately, and taking her hard, black hand between both his.
Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip.
Christian she had so compassionately bestowed upon so many enemies and infidels, and therefore drew near with the sovereign remedy, which she had already administered with such success.
Again he gestured, this time much more compassionately, at his commander and crewmates, and there was nobility in his proclamation.
So the hatcheries were closed, the ships retired, and the shipbrains compassionately killed.
Here the pious artisan, kneeling before the cross, and lifting up his hands to heaven, humbly besought his Creator that he would compassionately look down upon earth, and for the glory and excellence of his name, as well as for the support and confirmation of the Christian faith, would lend assistance to his people in the accomplishment of the task imposed upon them, and thus manifest his power to the revilers of his law.
Compassionately, Abner pleaded, "Come back, and I will wrap you in blankets.