condoling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of condole

plural condolings

1. countableuncountableCondolence.

   What admonitions would it not pour forth, what warnings, what commiseration, and what condolings.

   1845, Charles James Lever, Nuts and Nutcrackers, page 172

comparative more condoling · superlative most condoling

1. Expressing condolence; sympathetic.

   The Brandeis house was besieged by condoling callers.

   1917, Edna Ferber, chapter 1, in Fanny Herself, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 7

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   This is Ercles’ vein, a tyrant’s vein; a lover is more condoling.

   c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

   […] having put the Ashes in a Silver Urn, and on it a Crown of Gold, he sent it in great state, with a condoling Letter, to the young Marcellus […]

   1676, Roger Boyle, Parthenissa, Part 1, Book 4, p. 177

   Why then dost treat me with Rebukes, instead Of kind condoling Cares and friendly Sorrow?

   1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4

   I was just about to say something nice to Celia, I forget what but something condoling, when she lifted her face to me.

   2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 6, in Small Island, London: Review, page 96