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Deserving compassion or pity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pitiable
Antonyms: none provided
Having, feeling, or showing compassion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1536, uncredited translator (attributed to Miles Coverdale), 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?
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: compassionate
Antonyms: none provided
