compassioning
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]compassioning
- present participle and gerund of compassion
Noun
[edit]compassioning (plural compassionings)
- An act of bestowing compassion.
- 1863, Esther Le Hardy, The Home Nurse and Manual for the Sickroom, page 203:
- The Home Nurse who, from Christian principle, patiently and unmurmuringly endures the so-often ungracious observations, the supercilious compassionings, the idle, peevish complaints […]