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compassionize

compassionize verb: to make compassionate.

Verb

compassionize (third-person singular simple present compassionizes, present participle compassionizing, simple past and past participle compassionized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To make compassionate.
    • We want people to be compassionized by the quilt...it has such visual impact. The quilt does the work, not us.1988 February 14, Elizabeth Pincus, quoting Scott Lago, “AIDS Quilt, Still Evolving, Soon To Tour Nationally”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 3
    • Yet the volumes of laws and significant taxation apparently needed to compassionize "kufr capitalism" would mean a great deal of forbidding - forbidding low wages, long working hours, unsafe this and that.2002 October 14, elmer swanson, “Forbidding what God has allowed.”, in soc.religion.islam (Usenet)
  2. (intransitive, rare) To be compassionate, sympathize.
    • Because we, as aspects of humanity, which is aspect to spiritual existence have --in its human culiminated ^([sic]) potential-to-kinetic Te consciousness, empathize and compassionize with like-kinds -- potential or kinetic1997 March 29, Miller Jew, “On the Rancho Santa Fe cult suicide”, in alt.philosophy.taoism (Usenet)
    • The inference being that I'm not compassionizing properly when I offer fix-its. JEEZ. I'm really TRYING to be helpful and to be square and obey the law of the pack.1998 May 26, MegaLiz, “Any gay Subgeniuses!?”, in alt.slack.devo (Usenet)

Forms of compassionize

third-person singular presentcompassionizes
present participlecompassionizing
past participlecompassionized
pastcompassionized

Origin of compassionize

From compassion + -ize.

Questions about compassionize

What does compassionize mean?
Compassionize means to make compassionate.
What part of speech is compassionize?
Compassionize is a verb.
What is the past tense of compassionize?
The past tense of compassionize is compassionized.

Words near compassionize in the dictionary

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

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