compassionate

Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).

The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate

As a compassionate Turcoyse which doth tell By looking pale, the wearer is not well,

Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family.

compassionate leave; a compassionate visa

Inviting or asking for pity.

It boots thee not to be compassionate: After our sentence plaining comes too late.

To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.

[…] seeing them die so wofully in the flames, he compassionated them.

The Justice which Mr. Allworthy had executed on Partridge, at first met with universal Approbation; but no sooner had he felt its Consequences, than his Neighbours began to relent, and to compassionate his Case;