compassioning

English

Verb

compassioning

  1. present participle and gerund of compassion

Noun

compassioning (plural compassionings)

  1. An act of bestowing compassion.
    • 1863, Esther Le Hardy, The Home Nurse and Manual for the Sickroom, page 203:
      The Home Nurse who, from Christian principle, patiently and unmurmuringly endures the so-often ungracious observations, the supercilious compassionings, the idle, peevish complaints […]
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