compassionate
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The judge agreed his situation was "dire", but ruled that he was receiving "comprehensive and compassionate treatment" in prison.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Al-Megrahi was released by Scottish authorities on compassionate grounds in 2009 as he was suffering from terminal cancer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
His daughter was compassionate and truly loved helping others, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The agency will use its technology to identify conditions from the compassionate allowances list so that it can expedite claims processing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Kim should be over here in a second. I asked for her to come and give us—well, really, give you the rundown on what's happening with him," Black said as compassionate as he could.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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 John Bowling
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
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
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
The few who enter it will be compassionated much as a minister is who undertakes a dangerous foreign mission.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
“Le pauvre homme!” ejaculates the man, with a pretence at compassionating, under the circumstances ludicrous.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
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 William Thomas Thornton
About this time, the hospital or college of St. Juan de Letran was founded by Juan Geronimo Romero, who compassionating the situation of unfortunate orphans, took them into his house, and carefully brought them up.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga
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