compassionate

Is it compassionate to leave people detached from reality out on the cold street, or to police when something terrible happens?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“You have to be compassionate about someone being injured,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

"At that stage the prisoner had already absconded for a few hours, so we weren't aware at all of any application for compassionate leave," she told BBC News NI.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Returning from compassionate leave, he said his father would have wanted him "back out there" to bring forward "the changes that he always pushed me to make".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The wise and compassionate Prometheus, too, found that out.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

She compassionated him from her heart, and thought she might be able to administer some comfort to him, as regarded Rhoda Maxfield.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

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

Our new friend evidently compassionated our forlorn condition; indeed, now that the necessity for exerting ourselves was over, we both sank down utterly exhausted on the deck.

From Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler by James Durden

The people compassionated us and relieved us as much as possible.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Ambrose Coleman

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

He died on the scaffold, but with the greatest serenity, forgiving his persecutors, and compassionating their delusions.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

The Queen's Highness, compassionating, had bidden bear him to the castle and comfort and cure him, not having looked upon his face or heard his tongue.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford

"A severe service,—at least, one of rigid discipline," said D'Esmonde, with a compassionating expression of voice.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever