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Definition of Commiserations
1. commiseration [n] - See also: commiseration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commiserations
Literary usage of Commiserations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"... but rested quietly satisfied in the infinite unbounded goodness and tenderness
of his Father, and the commiserations of Jesus Christ . ..."
2. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1860)
"They were obliged ingloriously to resign their position, and were subjected to
the tantalizing commiserations of the Class. A man who has been unfortunate ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Later there were conjectures about "her," bits of personal description, faint
suggestions of longing, of aspiration ; then commiserations of his own ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1832)
"With what mortified indignation did these gentry receive the news of the conquest!
What interesting and sentimental commiserations they lavished on ..."
5. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain (1897)
"The others came back, and poured out their sympathies and commiserations, and
were full of self-reproaches for not having noticed how pale he WHS. ..."
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