The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compassionate \Com*pas"sion*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compassionated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compassionating.] To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.
Compassionates my pains, and pities me.
--Addison.
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vb. (present participle of compassionate English)
Usage examples of "compassionating".
He could not help, therefore, compassionating the situation of poor Nancy, whose love for Mr.
Mountstuart was compassionating Vernon for his ducking in pursuit of the wriggler.
Only towards evening the waves of the sea, compassionating such great misfortunes, come to murmur plaintive notes upon the beach.
Do you know that I have become so wedded to the country that I cannot but consider all those who leave it for the turbulent city, in the same light, half wondering, half compassionating, as that in which the ancients regarded the hardy adventurers who left the safe land and their happy homes, voluntarily to expose themselves in a frail vessel to the dangers of an uncertain sea?
The servants compassionating his miserable state and being very anxious to help, we soon got the loft-room ready.
Tebrick had remembered this he was, as it were, dazed or stunned by the fact, and for a long time he could understand nothing, but at last burst into a flood of tears compassionating them and himself too.
Miss Lant continued to see Jane, at long intervals, and was fervent in her praise as well as in compassionating the trials through which she had gone.