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Definition of Comfortingly
1. Adverb. In a comforting or consoling manner. "One part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form"
Definition of Comfortingly
1. Adverb. In a comforting manner ¹
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Definition of Comfortingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comfortingly
Literary usage of Comfortingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Letters of Ann Willson by Ann Willson (1850)
"... how comfortingly revives the counsel, " Let not your hearts be troubled—in
the Father's house are many mansions ;" and as ..."
2. The Gift of Paul Clermont by Warrington Dawson (1921)
"If you need them, I suppose you can't help it," the boy said, comfortingly.
"I know somebody who makes books. His son is in my class. I went to his shop, ..."
3. Beside Still Waters by Maria Luisa Fargion (1992)
"From the fluffy clouds, in tiny, silvery threads, the rain did come down quietly,
silently, comfortingly, as he had expressed itso poetically. ..."
4. The Last Athenian by Viktor Rydberg (1883)
"It ought certainly to have been thus," remarked the bishop comfortingly. "
O that I could see her again," thought Clemens as he ..."
5. The Wider Life by James Russell Miller (1908)
"One of these was that he would preach more comfortingly. A great many preachers,
when they look back from the end of their ministry, seeing all things then ..."
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