"compassionable" meaning in English

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          "text": "A man of this kind, on an enforced holiday, is a very compassionable object.",
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        "Deserving compassion or pity."
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        "(archaic) Deserving compassion or pity."
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          "text": "1536, uncredited translator (attributed to Miles Coverdale), A Myrrour or Glasse for them that be Syke [and] in Payne by Guglielmus Gnaphaeus, London: Ian Gough,\nCan not thynke ye the poore haue a mercifull, and compassionable harte towarde the, that be in pouerte, & anguysshe, though theyr power can not extende to declare it?"
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          "text": "1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 2 in Five Books, London: Henry Fetherstone, “Præritorum, or Discoveries of the World,” Chapter 13, p. 1843,\n[…] they in reuenge pulled mee by the heeles from the horse backe, beating me most pittifully, and left mee almost for dead […] and if it had not beene for some compassionable Greekes, who by accident came by and relieued me, I had (doubtlesse) immediately perished."
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        "(obsolete) Having, feeling, or showing compassion."
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