Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Compassionately \Com*pas"sion*ate*ly\, adv.
   In a compassionate manner; mercifully. --Clarendon.

Source : WordNet®

compassionately
     adv : in a compassionate manner; "the nurse looked at him
           pityingly" [syn: {pityingly}, {with compassion}, {with
           pity}]