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CONSOLING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affording comfort or solace
Synonyms:
comforting; consolatory; consoling
Classified under:
Similar:
reassuring (restoring confidence and relieving anxiety)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb console
Context examples:
Indeed, Miss Woodhouse, (speaking more collectedly,) with the consciousness which I have of misconduct, very great misconduct, it is particularly consoling to me to know that those of my friends, whose good opinion is most worth preserving, are not disgusted to such a degree as to—I have not time for half that I could wish to say.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
If poor Sir Thomas were fated never to return, it would be peculiarly consoling to see their dear Maria well married, she very often thought; always when they were in the company of men of fortune, and particularly on the introduction of a young man who had recently succeeded to one of the largest estates and finest places in the country.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene—his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
