Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who affords comfort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who comforts.
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- noun rare A
woman whocomforts .
Etymologies
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comforter + -ess
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Examples
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The compassion for others in affliction she well showed at the marriage-feast of Canad, spoken of in the preceding chapters, when the wine failing, without being asked, remarks St. Bernardine of Sienna, she charged herself with the office of a tender comfortress
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Beaumont and Fletcher); ‘comfortress’, ‘fosteress’ (Ben Jonson);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Amid the cares of love I will call on glory as my comfortress; since I am a beggar of heart, I will be mighty of hand.”
Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826
fbharjo commented on the word comfortress
almost comfort stress
September 8, 2010