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Definition of Comforted
1. Adjective. Made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress. "The news make her feel comforted"
Definition of Comforted
1. Verb. (past of comfort) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comforted
1. comfort [v] - See also: comfort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comforted
Literary usage of Comforted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"imperative. 35. Lord repented that he had made Saul king 2Sa.l3:39.Ae was comforted
concerning Amnon, Job 42: 6.1 abhor (myself), and repent Jer. ..."
2. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1899)
"Blessed JJf ' they that mourn : for they shall be comforted. ... When the sun
had set, the night before the battle, the com- comforted. manders of both ..."
3. The Works of Charles Follen: With a Memoir of His Life by Eliza Lee (Cabot) Follen, Charles Follen (1841)
"In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning;
Rachel weeping for her children, and would • not be comforted, because they ..."
4. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"... not be comforted. I shall not speak a word of any of these things, or write
a line. They shall be as a sealed book. I do not know what a sealed book is, ..."
5. Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897)
"On the other hand he was comforted by an inference from the old man's words that
... comforted ..."
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