compassionate

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

Last year, the SSA added 13 ailments to its compassionate allowance list of conditions that are so severe they automatically meet Social Security’s strict definition of disability.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 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

I’d rather confront him somewhere there was a chance of someone compassionate coming along.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

My misfortunes are compassionated, but that soothes not my wounded spirit, and is but a hateful substitute for the love I crave.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

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

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

Not so here; he—or she, to speak more properly—is tenderly treated and compassionated; all the little blandishments of society showered on her.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James

None: or at most this miserable, morbid, compassionated Giovanni: whom Ford would have us admire, and whom we can only despise.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Lee, Vernon

He won his confidence, genuinely compassionated his anxieties, and presently pledged himself to a most kindly office—the care and provision in future for the child soon to be fatherless; long before this time motherless.

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward

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

Faster fell the snow-flakes, cresting the waves of her hair like foam, and setting her teeth firmly, as if thereby locking the door against all compassionating compunctions.

From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

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

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

Nay, even though you had just before fallen down and broken your leg, would the compassionating by-standers be justified in forcing him to take you in?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas