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comˈpassionable, a. Now rare or Obs.
[f. compassion + -able.]
†1. actively. Inclined to compassion; pitiful, compassionate. Obs.
1548Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict., Compassioneuole, pitifull or compassionable. 1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels To Rdr. 4 Our compassionable care to profit..the parties. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 188 Some compassionable Greekes..relieued me. 1635J. Hayward Banish'd Virg. 15 With a no lesse ardent than compassionable affection.
2. Deserving or exciting compassion, pitiable.
1635J. Hayward Banish'd Virg. 14 My case being but too compassionable. 1751E. Carter in Rambler No. 100 ⁋1 The case of these truly compassionable objects. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. xviii. (1865) 363 Half-ludicrous, but more than half compassionable and admirable errors. |