What does "compassioning" mean?

An act of bestowing compassion.

What is a synonym for "compassioning"?

Common synonyms include: empathy, kindness, pity, mercy, ruth, tenderheartedness.

Compassioning

noun, verb

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Noun

1
An act of bestowing compassion.
"The Home Nurse who, from Christian principle, patiently and unmurmuringly endures the so-often ungracious observations, the supercilious compassionings, the idle, peevish complaints […]"

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of compassion form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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empathy kindness pity mercy ruth tenderheartedness

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"The Home Nurse who, from Christian principle, patiently and unmurmuringly endures the so-often ungracious observations, the supercilious compassionings, the idle, peevish complaints […]"

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