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- noun Plural form of
consoling .
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Examples
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Explanations, commandments, reconciliations, consolings -- he has none of these to offer.
Anton Chekhov 1918
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a lovely chapel -- too large for the household, but not too large for its congregation upon Wednesday evenings, when many of the fishermen and their families, and not a few of the inhabitants of the upper town, with occasionally several farm servants from the neighbourhood, assembled to listen devoutly to the fervent and loving expostulations and rousings, or the tender consolings and wise instructions of the master, as every one called him.
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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