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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Compassionate

Com·pas′sion·ate (kŏm·păsh′ŭn·āt), a. 1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South.

2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. [R.] Shak.

Syn. — Sympathizing; tender; merciful; pitiful.

Com·pas′sion·ate (·āt), 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.