compassionate

My hope for this country: Just for more peace and more love, and for people just to be more compassionate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

You’re making a generous and compassionate choice, even though it comes with real sacrifices and uncertainty.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

A national inquiry has strongly criticised the NHS maternity system in England, saying it is "not set up to deliver consistently safe, high-quality and compassionate care".

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Rather, the book shares lessons she’s taken from years of therapy in the form of well-dressed animals dropping pearls of compassionate wisdom.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

He was a compassionate, curious, humorous intellectual, a great writer, and his religious background never came up, nor did it seem important to me at the time.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

In the market-place I compassionated an unfortunate thief minus his right hand and left leg.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus

When ter- precedes per-, one of the particles drops its final letter; as te-per-sayang, compassionated; ter-pe-lanting, sent flying.

From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

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 Froude, J.A.

She compassionated their sufferings, and had respect for their cause.

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

Perhaps they are rather to be envied than compassionated; for it is manifest that for them, duty—to use the eloquent expression of an English divine—has become transfigured into happiness.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

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

It is the sort of compassionating, commiserating estimate imaginative girls occasionally get up for dreary depressed fellows, constituting themselves discoverers of intellect that no one ever suspected—revealers of wealth that none had ever dreamed of.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James

The Government, compassionating their sufferings, seized a parcel of the soap, and caused it to be analyzed by a chemist.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken

“Le pauvre homme!” ejaculates the man, with a pretence at compassionating, under the circumstances ludicrous.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne