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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of comfort.

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comfort +‎ -est

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Examples

  • Thou, Lord, who madest them, re-makest and comfortest them.

    The Confessions 1999

  • [174] And lo, thou art near, and thou deliverest us from our wretched wanderings and establishest us in thy way, and thou comfortest us and sayest, "Run, I will carry you; yea, I will lead you home and then I will set you free."

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • Many are found crying, in bitterness of soul, 'What must I do to be saved;' while others are enabled to adopt the language of inspiration, and exclaim, 'O Lord, I WILL praise thee; for though thou wert angry with me, thine auger is turned away, and thou comfortest me.'

    The Village Sunday School With brief sketches of three of its scholars John C. Symons

  • Then dost Thou gently wipe away their tears, and they weep the more, and joy in weeping; even for that Thou, Lord, —not man of flesh and blood, but—Thou, Lord, who madest them, re-makest and comfortest them.

    The Fifth Book 1909

  • But the old oak-tree said: "Nay, nay, my beloved; I love thee better as thou art, for with thy beauty and thy love thou comfortest mine age."

    A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872

  • But thou, Paisiello, calm in the long prosperity of fame, knowest that the New will have its day, and comfortest thyself that the Elfrida and the Pirro will live forever.

    Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In that day, the church of God shall say, 'O Lord I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • O Lord, I will praise thee; though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • a friend art Thou, O my Lord! how Thou comfortest and endurest, and also waitest for them to make themselves like unto Thee, and yet, in the meanwhile, art Thyself so patient of the state they are in!

    The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila Teresa 1548

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