compassionate

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Fling your exhausted soul down at the feet of an all-compassionate, all-sympathizing, all-pitying, all-pardoning Jesus.

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  1. adjective Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane.
  2. adjective Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: compassionate military leave.
  3. transitive verb To pity.

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  • Perhaps the most guilty of enabling and encouraging Palestinian and Islamic / Arab victimhood and aggression have been the world community (through the UN) and the 'compassionate'-and often counterproductive -- foreign policy of Western democracies and of the Israelis themselves. —  Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
  • I knew, for example, that President Bush felt differently than I did about immigration and I chafed at the term "compassionate conservatism" because it implied that conservatives were not, naturally, compassionate -- a notion I believe to be patently false. —  Right Wing News
  • May Allah Ta'Ala make us all just and compassionate, and may we judge fairly always, even if it goes against our own. —  MuslimMatters.org
  • We have to be more epathetic and compassionate, and stop assuming that our own sh*t doesn't stink. —  The Red Tape Chronicles
  • When Jason Ray died last March (we'd dated for 3 years & only just broken up), Eve was so kind and compassionate, and gave me letters of sympathy that strangers had sent to her as our SBP. —  Daily Tar Heel RSS
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from compassion + -ate. Cf. affectionate, passionate, etc.
  2. from compassion + -ate.
 

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/kəmˈpæʃəneɪt/
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