compassionate

Al-Megrahi was released by Scottish authorities on compassionate grounds in 2009 as he was suffering from terminal cancer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

“It is so much more compassionate, so much more authentic,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The trust said providing "safe and compassionate care" was at the "heart of what we do".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

No one exemplifies this generous worldview better than Lotta, who turns out not to be the villain of May’s darkest imaginings but a complicated, compassionate and rather philosophical human being.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

“I’m not crazy. I’m compassionate. No, I’m more than compassionate; I’m...considerate,” Juanita said, using the word correctly.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

You know how weakly pitiful I always am towards wicked people; for it seems to me that they are so much more to be compassionated than the good.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

One, at least, knew of my existence, and possibly pitied and compassionated my desolation.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

And he was compassionated and pitied for being obliged to remain in so old-fashioned and out-of-the-way country town as insignificant Newberg.

From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee

Ernest, seeing how solitary and melancholy he appeared, compassionated the poor fellow, and never lost an opportunity of speaking kindly to him.

From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas

Her punishment was regarded as a creditable act of justice, and the King was compassionated as a sufferer from abominable ingratitude.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

Mr. Hearne is hardly sympathetic toward those who wrong women, but I hear “Consent” as compassionating all of us who have been bequeathed unequal, curdled social relations.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

“A body can’t play a symphony next to a man, without compassionating with his woes.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"A thousand pities!" cried the men, compassionating his thinly covered skull, and twisting their own ringlets, glossy and luxuriant, though unconscious of Macassar.

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

She turned from the house and came nearer to the lake, shaking her head, as though compassionating the poor folk who lived there.

From Northern Lights by Gilbert Parker

It was suggested to the dying rabbi that if compassionating folk would render him up a portion of their lives, Hakkadosh might attain his fourscore years.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe