Compassionately

adv. [f. COMPASSIONATE a. + -LY².] In a compassionate manner, pitifully, pityingly; with tender pity.

1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. xvi. (1632), 95. He was compassionately intreated.

a. 1714.  Sharp, Serm., I. x. (R.). How kindly and compassionately soever, we, as private Christians, are to treat those that differ from us.

1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., xii. ‘Poor ’Tilda!’ sighed Miss Squeers compassionately.