Definition of Consoling

1. Adjective. Affording comfort or solace.

Exact synonyms: Comforting, Consolatory
Similar to: Reassuring
Derivative terms: Console

Definition of Consoling

1. a. Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news.

Definition of Consoling

1. Verb. (present participle of console) ¹

2. Noun. the act of consoling ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consoling

1. console [v] - See also: console

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consoling

consoler
consolers
consoles
consolidant
consolidate
consolidated
consolidates
consolidating
consolidation
consolidation chemotherapy
consolidation treatment
consolidations
consolidative
consolidator
consolidators
consoling (current term)
consolingly
consolings
consolised
consolized
consols
consolute
consolute point
consommation
consomme
consommes
consonance
consonances
consonancies
consonancy

Literary usage of Consoling

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

1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... "the consoling doctrines and the generous Utopias," the course of lectures which she had projected on the ..."

2. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"... Satire on the Pope consoling the Chevalier. AJ, Dec. 15.—Sir, We have now the Plot, so long talk'd of, come to the usual head of all Plots, (viz. ..."

3. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"consoling Thought of the Resurrection and of Eternal Life. the most remote epoch of the world's history we find that the dead were treated with respect, ..."

4. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of Durham, to King Henry the VIII., consoling him for the death of Queen Jane Seymour. [Ms. COTTON. ..."

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