compatient

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adjective

Suffering or enduring together.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivecompatient (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteSuffering or enduring together.

    the same compatient and commorient fates and times

    1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third

Origin

  1. Latincompatients
  2. Englishcompatient

From Latin compatients, present participle of compati. See compassion.

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