Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of condoling; condolence.
  • noun The act of sorrowing or mourning; grief; lamentation; sorrow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Condolence.
  • noun Sorrow; mourning; lamentation.

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  • noun sorrow
  • noun An expression of sorrow or sympathy because of a bereavement; condolence

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Examples

  • How, at a moment like this, could she make her purposed confession to her father, whose wounded mind demanded all she could offer of condolement?

    Camilla 2008

  • She would be sure that even my exquisite loss could not render me ungrateful to all condolement; she would know that a daughter whom she had herself reared and instructed, would blush so unceasingly to publish any personal disappointment, let her feel it how she might.

    Camilla 2008

  • There are many prejudices with which a playwright has to contend, on his first appearance, more especially if he court the reader in lieu of the spectator; and it is so great an effort to give up any established topic of condolement, that we can hardly yet expect those, who call themselves "the critics", to abandon their favourite complaint of the degeneracy which characterizes the efforts of contemporary tragic writers.

    Dedication 2005

  • Then how to act (I who am no hypocrite) in the days of condolement!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Touching this promotion, Bunce had nothing but condolement to offer to the new junior lord.

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • From her aunt she received an answer, abounding more in common-place condolement, than in traits of real sorrow, which assured her, that

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • St. Aubert followed a gay Parisian servant to a parlour, where sat Mons. and Madame Quesnel, who received him with a stately politeness, and, after a few formal words of condolement, seemed to have forgotten that they ever had a sister.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • In another of his Salisbury walks he met with a neighbour minister; and after some friendly discourse betwixt them, and some condolement for the decay of piety, and too general contempt of the clergy, Mr. Herbert took occasion to say: 72

    The Life of Mr. George Herbert. Paras. 50-99 1909

  • In another of his Salisbury walks, he met with a neighbour Minister; and after some friendly discourse betwixt them, and some condolement for the decay of piety, and too general contempt of the Clergy, Mr. Herbert took occasion to say,

    Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

  • Now I am left with one friend less, and it remains with me to convey through you my best condolement to all the members of your society.

    Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885

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