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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
compassionate .
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Examples
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No wonder you actual compassionates, conservatives, and Christians are recoiling in horror from this president, his administration, and his party.
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My consolation is, indeed, that God hears many a groan, and compassionates much grief which man stops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt.
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He compassionates the poor, and would give the beggar an "awmous"; but measures which would prevent begging, which would place the means of a comfortable subsistence in hands of all men, so that there should be no poor, he apparently contemplates not without horror.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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Howsoever, when he suffers in his own person, it uses to be styled misery: when he compassionates others, then it is mercy.
The Confessions 1999
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Whatever be our infirmities, so far as they are our temptations, he doth suffer with us under them, and compassionates us.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Every soul sensible to honor, envies rather than compassionates their fate.
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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When the critic comes and in pity asks you -- "Do you really think that a good sermon?" he compassionates your poor judgment, leads you to the library, takes down a volume of Lehmkuhl or Suarez, and with a triumphant wave of his hand assures you that every idea in that sermon may be found there.
The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan
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A stranger meets able-bodied men walking about; he is told, and he sees, that there are no resident gentry in the neighbourhood to afford them work; he compassionates their condition; concocts a paragraph, and imputes the misery he witnesses to absenteeism.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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Walpole now bursts out into indignant virtue; exclaims that even the church has its renegades in politics, and almost compassionates the king, "who was obliged to fling open his _asylum_ to all kinds of deserters; revenging himself, however, by not speaking to them at his levee, or listening to them in the pulpit."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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But no one compassionates the misfortunes of the covetous, though few perhaps are in greater need of compassion.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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