Definition of Comforters

1. Noun. (plural of comforter) ¹

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Definition of Comforters

1. comforter [n] - See also: comforter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comforters

comfort woman
comfort women
comfort zone
comfort zones
comfortability
comfortable
comfortable in one's own skin
comfortable in one's skin
comfortableness
comfortables
comfortably
comfortably off
comforted
comfortedest
comforter
comforters (current term)
comfortest
comforteth
comforting
comfortingly
comfortingness
comfortless
comfortlessly
comfortlessness
comfortment
comfortments
comfortress
comfortresses
comforts
comfrey

Literary usage of Comforters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet (1863)
"But the good once done by these poor comforters is clean forgotten !—Nay, who now remembers or even acknowledges the old debt of humanity to harmless nature ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1876)
"... than to see how men thoroughly in earnest are taking up in England the great social questions of the day. JOB'S comforters.—This is an amusing satire, ..."

3. Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an by Charles Francis Hall (1865)
"Dog comforters.—Caught in a Storm. —Peril and Fatigue.—Safe Return to the fifth Encampment, same as the third. ON Tuesday, the 1st of April, 1862,1 started ..."

4. The Story of Our Bible: How it Grew to be what it is by Harold Bruce Hunting (1915)
"... CHAPTER XXII comforters AND GUIDES IN DARK DAYS EZEKIEL, HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH, AND OTHERS Before the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, the message of the ..."

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