compassionable

Adjective

 * 1)  Deserving compassion or pity.
 * 2) * 1585,, A Christian Directorie Guiding Men to their Saluation, Rouen: Fr. Parson’s Press, Part1, Chapter8,
 * 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.
 * 1)  Having, feeling, or showing compassion.
 * 2) * 1536, uncredited translator (attributed to ), A Myrrour or Glasse for them that be Syke [and] 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?
 * 1) * 1625,, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 2 in Five Books, London: Henry Fetherstone, “Præritorum, or Discoveries of the World,” Chapter13, 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.
 * 1) * 1536, uncredited translator (attributed to ), A Myrrour or Glasse for them that be Syke [and] 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?
 * 1) * 1625,, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 2 in Five Books, London: Henry Fetherstone, “Præritorum, or Discoveries of the World,” Chapter13, 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.
 * 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.