ppl. a. [f. COMPASSIONATE v. + -ING2.] That compassionates; pitying.

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1635.  A. Stafford, Fem. Glory (1869), 137. Her tender compassionating Heart.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Hymns Festiv., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 223. With a compassionating Zeal.

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