compassionate

According to Al-Marimi, he was released from prison on "compassionate grounds" on 30 September 2021 and returned to his family in Tripoli.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

"She was an extraordinary, compassionate woman, a passionate woman, and she brought about such change in our world, change for the better."

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The words “Oh, you’re late” had the effect of making someone who was ordinarily compassionate into someone who was indifferent to suffering — of turning someone, in that particular moment, into a different person.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

She merely compassionated the men in that they were driven to brutishness.

From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett

She had compassionated him in his troubles, and he had told her in what alone his hope of comfort lay.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn

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

Erasmus, whose portrait he had so often made in many different positions, compassionated his poverty and lack of occupation and sent him with a note of introduction to Sir Thomas More.

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

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

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

At length the lady, compassionating his perplexity, again anxiously asked— "Do you remember a certain little gold-fish?"

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

How long this might have lasted I know not, had not a person in the dogana, compassionating my dullness, stepped up to me, and whispered into my ear to give the searcher a few paulos.

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

The poor people in the villages through which I passed, compassionating me and my little girl, gave us all the assistance in their power.

From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston