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compassionings

compassionings is the plural of compassioning.

Meaning of compassioning

Noun

compassioning (plural compassionings)

  1. An act of bestowing compassion.
    • The Home Nurse who, from Christian principle, patiently and unmurmuringly endures the so-often ungracious observations, the supercilious compassionings, the idle, peevish complaints […]1863, Esther Le Hardy, The Home Nurse and Manual for the Sickroom, page 203

Questions about compassionings

What is compassionings the plural of?
Compassionings is the plural of compassioning.

Words near compassionings in the dictionary

  1. compassionator
  2. compassionators
  3. compassioned
  4. compassionful
  5. compassioning
  6. compassionings
  7. compassionize
  8. compassionless
  9. compassionlessly
  10. compassionlessness
  11. compassions

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