Definitions
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- adverb In a
condoling manner - adverb By means of
condolence
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everybody exclaimed copiously and condolingly over the unfortunate occurrence.
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
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He was conscious now of the final reality, which was that there wasn't so much a doubt as a difference altogether; all the more that over the difference the famous sculptor seemed to signal almost condolingly, yet oh how vacantly! as across some great flat sheet of water.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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He was conscious now of the final reality, which was that there wasn’t so much a doubt as a difference altogether; all the more that over the difference the famous sculptor seemed to signal almost condolingly, yet oh how vacantly! as across some great flat sheet of water.
The Ambassadors 2003
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"You talk as well as ever," she said condolingly, "but heigh-ho, you don't look the same.
Tommy and Grizel 1898
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But lie quiet, I pray you; be at ease, while I look into your injuries, "said the doctor, condolingly, and proceeded to the outstretched person of the wounded man with great deliberation.
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