condolement

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In the midst of Woodfall's condolement he was stopped by the Doctor, who said he had wished to see him on quite a different subject.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Tokens of condolement mingled themselves with welcomes and felicitations.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

For them shall none lament,  6b Nor gash nor make themselves bald; Neither break bread713 to the mourner,714  7 For the dead to console him, Nor pour him715 the cup of condolement For his father or mother.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir

Touching this promotion, Bunce had nothing but condolement to offer to the new junior lord.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony

He was most gentlemanly in his expressions of condolement with the family in their distress; he sat with them, moreover, much longer than was permissible under the circumstances by the code of society.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George