compassionateness (kompashonatnes)

The quality of being compa ionate. compa ion at i vet (kom-pash'on-a-tiv), a. compa ionate, v., + -ive.] Same as sionate. 2. Capable of existing together in harmony; suitable; agreeable; congenial; congruous. Not repugnant, but compatible . Sir T. More , Works, p. 485. Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the po e ion of like liberty by every other man. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 94. Nor would hee have permitted his compa ionative nature to imagine, etc. Sir K. Digby , Obs. on Religio Medici, p. 12. compa le (kum'pas-les), a. [ compa + -le .] Having no compa ; wanting guidance. [Rare.] compa mentt, n. [ com pa ement , also comp a cement, com pa ement , com pa er , compa : see compa , v.] Contrivance; purpose; design; a carrying into execution; accomplishment. Chaucer. Men may well preven be experience and sotyle compa e ment of Wytt, that zif a man fond pa ages be Schippes, that wolde go to serchen the World, men myghte go be Schippe alle aboute the World, and aboven and bene then. Mandeville , Travels, p. 180.