recomfort
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman reconforter, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French reconforter, from re- + conforter.
Pronunciation
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Verb
recomfort (third-person singular simple present recomforts, present participle recomforting, simple past and past participle recomforted)
- (transitive, now rare) To console (someone); to comfort, look after.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII::
- With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd and made good chere
- (transitive, now rare) To inspire with new courage; to encourage.
- (transitive, now rare) To reinvigorate, to strengthen.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)