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English
Verb
condoling
- present participle and gerund of condole
Noun
condoling (countable and uncountable, plural condolings)
- Condolence.
1845, Charles James Lever, Nuts and Nutcrackers, page 172:What admonitions would it not pour forth, what warnings, what commiseration, and what condolings.
Adjective
condoling (comparative more condoling, superlative most condoling)
- Expressing condolence; sympathetic.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :This is Ercles’ vein, a tyrant’s vein; a lover is more condoling.
1676, Roger Boyle, Parthenissa, Part 1, Book 4, p. 177:[…] having put the Ashes in a Silver Urn, and on it a Crown of Gold, he sent it in great state, with a condoling Letter, to the young Marcellus […]
1712 (date written), Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson, , published 1713, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 4:Why then dost treat me with Rebukes, instead
Of kind condoling Cares and friendly Sorrow?
1917, Edna Ferber, chapter 1, in Fanny Herself, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 7:The Brandeis house was besieged by condoling callers.
2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 6, in Small Island, London: Review, page 96:I was just about to say something nice to Celia, I forget what but something condoling, when she lifted her face to me.
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