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English
Etymology
From compassion + -able.
Adjective
compassionable (comparative more compassionable, superlative most compassionable)
- (archaic) Deserving compassion or pity.
- Synonym: pitiable
- 1585, Robert Parsons, A Christian Directorie Guiding Men to their Saluation, Rouen: Fr. Parson’s Press, Part 1, Chapter 8,
- He spared him not euen then, when he beheld him sorowful vnto death, and bathed in that agonie of blood and water, when he hard him vtter thos most dolorous and compassionable speeches, O my father, if it be possible, let this cuppe passe from me.
1678, Isaac Barrow, Several Sermons against Evil-Speaking, London: Brabazon Aylmer, The Eighth Sermon, p. 60: a good Judg should tender the Parties Case as compassionable, and desire that he may be delivered from the evil threatning him;
1770, Francis Gentleman, “Romeo and Juliet, altered from Shakespeare by Garrick”, in The Dramatic Censor: or, Critical Companion, volume 1, London: J. Bell, page 184:The following interview between Juliet and her parents places her in a very compassionable situation;
1890, “On Idleness”, in All the Year Round, Series 3, Volume 3, No. 76, 14 June, 1890, p. 557:A man of this kind, on an enforced holiday, is a very compassionable object.
- (obsolete) Having, feeling, or showing compassion.
- Synonym: compassionate
- 1536, uncredited translator (attributed to Miles Coverdale), A Myrrour or Glasse for them that be Syke in Payne by Guglielmus Gnaphaeus, London: Ian Gough,
- Can not thynke ye the poore haue a mercifull, and compassionable harte towarde the, that be in pouerte, & anguysshe, though theyr power can not extende to declare it?
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 2 in Five Books, London: Henry Fetherstone, “Præritorum, or Discoveries of the World,” Chapter 13, p. 1843,
- they in reuenge pulled mee by the heeles from the horse backe, beating me most pittifully, and left mee almost for dead and if it had not beene for some compassionable Greekes, who by accident came by and relieued me, I had (doubtlesse) immediately perished.