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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
recomfort .
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Examples
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Slowly he filled a glass, slowly drank it out; and, as a tide of animal warmth recomforted the recesses of his nature, stood there smiling at himself.
Lay Morals 2005
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And then Sir Gareth recomforted his mother in such wise that she recovered and made good cheer.
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Whiche thinge he right willingly did, not looking that he should be bidden againe, and being recomforted with the warmth therof, he felt him selfe reuiued from death to life.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The bishop of Durham, being in the field, had good will to have succoured the Englishmen and recomforted his men as much as he could; but he saw his own men fly as well as other.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Jewels, some bound together and some loose, wherein he had pretie skill: and knowing them to be of great value, giuing thanckes to God, which had not yet forsaken him, was wholy recomforted.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Adam, greatly satisfied and recomforted by these relations and promises, descends the hill with Michael; wakens Eve, who all this while had slept, but with gentle dreams composed to quietness of mind and submission.
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The bishop of Durham, being in the field, had good will to have succoured the Englishmen and recomforted his men as much as he could; but he saw his own men fly as well as other.
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And then Sir Gareth recomforted his mother in such wise that she recovered and made good cheer.
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Then the duke commanded that all the sinews of his body should be all drawn out and after put him in boiling oil, and after did do hang him by chains, and set unto his sides, pots all burning: but nevertheless he was always in such wise recomforted of our Lord that he felt no pain.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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When this physician had heard these words, he was all recomforted, and repented of his evil purpose, and suffered gladly martyrdom.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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