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  • There was no chance that he would be treated with compassion.  (source)
    compassion = sympathy and a desire to help
  • But she did not hear the compassion in his invitation.  (source)
    compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
  • We talked about one of Morrie's favorite subjects, compassion, and why our society had such a shortage of it.  (source)
    compassion = sympathy for another's suffering
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  • In the past, I had seen her treat animals with more compassion than she did me.  (source)
    compassion = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
  • But also those close to him say he is a compassionate man.†  (source)
  • LARRY—(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw it, Harry.†  (source)
    compassionately = with sympathy for another's suffering
  • Many and many a time this good-natured lady, compassionating the forlorn life-guardsman's condition, gave him an opportunity of seeing Miss Sharp at the Rectory, and of walking home with her, as we have seen.†  (source)
    compassionating = sympathizing
  • As he began to drift away he also began to see her as a human being, to like and dislike her instead of accepting her as a comparatively movable part of the furniture, and he compassionated that husband-and-wife relation which, in twenty-five years of married life, had become a separate and real entity.†  (source)
    compassionated = felt sympathy for
  • I breathed the fresh air of the street as though I'd been suffocated and then I saw her compassionless face studying mine.†  (source)
    compassionless = without sympathy for another's suffering
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in compassionless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
  • 3:22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.†  (source)
    compassions = sympathies
  • Take courage; suffer not excessive dread 1000 To overwhelm thee, such a guide he hath And guardian, one whom many wish their friend, And ever at their side, knowing her pow'r, Minerva; she compassionates thy griefs, And I am here her harbinger, who speak As thou hast heard by her own kind command.†  (source)
    compassionates = sympathizes
  • my most compassionable guest!†  (source)
    compassionable = archaic term for "compassionate" or "pitiful"
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in compassionable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom—Which, unrevers'd, stands in effectual force—A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears; Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd; With them, upon her knees, her humble self, Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them As if but now they waxed pale for woe: But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire; But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die.†  (source)
    uncompassionate = without sympathy for another's suffering
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncompassionate means not and reverses the meaning of compassionate. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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