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COMFORTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress
Example:
the news make her feel comforted
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Similar:
comfortable (free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb comfort
Context examples:
But I soothed and comforted her, till she pulled herself bravely together and recuperated mentally as quickly as she was wont to do physically.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But Dick was not to be comforted; indeed, it was soon plain to me that the lad was falling sick; hastened by heat, exhaustion, and the shock of his alarm, the fever, predicted by Dr. Livesey, was evidently growing swiftly higher.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I now began to be a little comforted; and took out some toys, which travellers usually carry for presents to the savage Indians of America, and other parts, in hopes the people of the house would be thereby encouraged to receive me kindly.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in her power to avoid Edward entirely, comforted herself by thinking, that though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The girls grieved over such a number of ladies, but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing, that instead of twelve he brought only six with him from London—his five sisters and a cousin.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Nevertheless he comforted his little sister, and said: “Do not cry, Gretel, go to sleep quietly, the good God will help us.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Miss Bertram had made up her mind to something different, and was a little disappointed; but her conviction of being really the one preferred comforted her under it, and enabled her to receive Mr. Rushworth's parting attentions as she ought.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow after all; but the old crow comforted me, saying, 'If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.'
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
