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Definition of Condoling
1. condole [v] - See also: condole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Condoling
Literary usage of Condoling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Correct Guide to Letter Writing by Member of the aristocracy (1889)
"To a Lady, condoling with her on the Death of her Father-in-law. DEAR MRS. ...
condoling with a Lady on the Death of her little Boy. ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Addresses have been presented to his majestie from the officers in the garrison
of Portsmouth, and members of the society of Lincolns Inn, condoling the ..."
3. Iroquois Religion and Its Relation to Their Morals by Morris Wolf (1919)
"237- 246, reprints a translation of a part of the condoling- rites given in
original and ... Hale : " Iroquois condoling Council," in Trans. Royal Soc. ..."
4. Biographical Sketches of He Generals of the Continental Army of the Revolution by Mary Theresa Leiter, Mary Theresa Carver [Leiter (1889)
"... who was condoling with him, " I thank you for your generous sympathy, but I
die the death I always prayed for, — the death of a soldier fighting for the ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"ON OF condoling THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. SIB,—The reason of so much time taken
before my answer to yours of the fourth of August, rvas chiefly my accompanying ..."
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