compassionate
/kəmˈpæʃənət/ adjective B2- Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone). · The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate
- Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family. · compassionate leave; a compassionate visa
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“If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives; for a whole day’s _tête-à-tête_ between two women can never end without a quarrel.
This timidity, which might proceed from the astonishment of innocence as well as the shame of guilt, conciliated some in his favor; for men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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