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Definition of Comforting
1. Adjective. Providing freedom from worry.
2. Adjective. Affording comfort or solace.
Definition of Comforting
1. Adjective. Giving comfort. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of comfort) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comforting
1. comfort [v] - See also: comfort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comforting
Literary usage of Comforting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1859)
"... forbearing, readiness to be reconciled, patient bearing and forgiving of
injuries, and requiting good for evil"; comforting q Eccl. ii. 23. ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"ART'S comforting. I sat and pondered, and grew sorrowful ; "No fruit—no fruit!"
I cried; "my tree of life Was set in barren soil. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"But it is comforting to know, after surgical aid lias been employed, that even
without such aid the chances are against the disease being communicated. ..."
4. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"When the latter died, the native desired to carry out the Oriental custom of
comforting the spirit of the deceased by bringing to his tomb a sample of the ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"When the latter died, the native desired to carry out the Oriental custom of
comforting the spirit of the deceased by bringing to his tomb a sample of the ..."
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