condoling

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Verb

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condoling

  1. present participle and gerund of condole

Noun

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condoling (countable and uncountable, plural condolings)

  1. 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

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condoling (comparative more condoling, superlative most condoling)

  1. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
      This is Ercles’ vein, a tyrant’s vein; a lover is more condoling.
    • 1676, Roger Boyle, Parthenissa[1], 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), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. [], London: [] J[acob] 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[2], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 7:
      The Brandeis house was besieged by condoling callers.
    • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 6, in Small Island[3], 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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