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Definition of Condole with
1. Verb. Share the suffering of. "Sam cannot condole with Sue "
Generic synonyms: Grieve, Sorrow
Specialized synonyms: Commiserate, Sympathise, Sympathize, Care
Derivative terms: Compassion, Compassion, Pity, Pity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Condole With
Literary usage of Condole with
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"In 1632 he accompanied, as secretary, the embassy of Robert Sidney, earl of
Leicester, which was sent to the court of Denmark to condole with the king on ..."
2. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"On the contrary, Mrs. Johnson said she never to her dying day should forget how,
when she went to condole with her, the old lady came forward, ..."
3. Otzinachson: Or, a History of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna by John Franklin Meginness (1857)
"... HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER—CONRAD WEISER SENT TO condole with HIS FAMILY.
THE first house erected at Shamokin was by Conrad Weiser, for the Indian Chief ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"of Munster, on the behalf of the king of Spain, was then in that town with
credentials to visit the king, and to condole with him. They had an audience the ..."
5. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"Lord Holderness sent by George the Second to condole with the Princess.—Her
insulting treatment of him.—Her dislike of her father, and the cause. ..."
6. Tseʾenah U-reʾenah =: Tzeénah Ureénah : "Go Ye and See" : a Rabbinical by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi, Paul Isaac Hershon (1885)
"The reason why lentils are cooked for a mourner (whereby to condole with him) is
to show symbolically, as lentils are round, so death rolls round from one ..."
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