compassioning

English

Verb

compassioning

1. present participle and gerund of compassion

Noun

compassioning (plural compassionings)

1. 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 […]