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Definition of Consoling
1. Adjective. Affording comfort or solace.
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
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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