Compassionate vs Companion - What's the difference?
compassionate | companion |
Having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.
* South
Of a leave, given to someone because of a domestic emergency.
(obsolete) Inviting pity; pitiable.
(archaic) To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Godwin, title=Caleb Williams, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And yet I could not help bitterly compassionating the honest fellow, brought to the gallows, as he was, strictly speaking, by the machinations of that devil incarnate, Mr. Tyrrel. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=J. Sheridan Le Fanu, title=The Evil Guest, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The good Mrs. Mervyn accompanied these words with looks so sly, and emphasis so significant, that Rhoda was fain to look down, to hide her blushes; and compassionating the confusion she herself had caused, the kind old lady led her to the chamber which was henceforward, so long as she consented to remain, to be her own apartment. }}
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 50:
A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
* Shakespeare
(dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
(nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
(nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
(topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
(figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
(astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
(obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
* 1599 , , III. i. 111:
In obsolete terms the difference between compassionate and companion
is that compassionate is inviting pity; pitiable while companion is to qualify as a companion; to make equal.As verbs the difference between compassionate and companion
is that compassionate is to feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for while companion is to be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.As an adjective compassionate
is having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.As a noun companion is
a friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company.compassionate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate .
- compassionate leave
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* ruthfulVerb
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- 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 [...].
companion
English
Noun
(en noun)- His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
- Here are your sons again; and I must lose / Two of the sweetest companions in the world.
- a companion of the Bath
- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion ,
