Compassionate vs Forgiving - What's the difference?

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Compassionate is a related term of forgiving.

As adjectives the difference between compassionate and forgiving

is that compassionate is having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic while forgiving is inclined to forgive.

As verbs the difference between compassionate and forgiving

is that compassionate is (archaic) to feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for while forgiving is .

As a noun forgiving is

an act of forgiveness.

compassionate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.

* South

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate .

Of a leave, given to someone because of a domestic emergency.

compassionate leave

(obsolete) Inviting pity; pitiable.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* ruthful

Verb

(compassionat)

(archaic) To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.

* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Godwin, title=Caleb Williams, chapter=, edition= citation

, 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= citation

, 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:

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 [...].

forgiving

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Inclined to forgive.

I am not very forgiving .

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

An act of forgiveness.

* 1996 , Bernard P. Dauenhauer, Citizenship in a Fragile World (page 58)

And I receive your forgiveness only from you. A group's promises and forgivings are nothing more than the sum of its individual members' promises and forgivings.