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   compassionate

   /kəmˈpaʃənət/

   adjective

   • 1. feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others: "I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from compassion + -ate2, influenced by archaic French compassioné ‘feeling pity’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. compassionately adverb

   Scrabble Points: 19

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