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In contrast, the head teacher had spent the past 17 years leading Stretford Grammar School, where he was known as a man of "unshakeable principles and a compassionate leader".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Your response to his three children’s accusations is a compassionate one.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

In her groups she said she encountered "desperate" parents navigating a "lack of appropriate and compassionate bereavement care" and a "huge lack of consistency" across health boards.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Is it compassionate to leave people detached from reality out on the cold street, or to police when something terrible happens?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Then we shall be the first. We’ll find our way out. And since we’re going to do that, be kind, boatman, be compassionate, let her take her dæmon!”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

Erasmus, whose portrait he had so often made in many different positions, compassionated his poverty and lack of occupation and sent him with a note of introduction to Sir Thomas More.

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

And he was compassionated and pitied for being obliged to remain in so old-fashioned and out-of-the-way country town as insignificant Newberg.

From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee

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

She compassionated their sufferings, and had respect for their cause.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

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

He died on the scaffold, but with the greatest serenity, forgiving his persecutors, and compassionating their delusions.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

The Queen's Highness, compassionating, had bidden bear him to the castle and comfort and cure him, not having looked upon his face or heard his tongue.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford

I saw how he was drawn to her more and more on the pretext of compassionating her loneliness, and I looked on, paralysed with agony that I might lose him a second time.

From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann