condolement
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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 Sir George Adam Smith
Some of the men crowded about curiously, throwing careless jokes of condolement at the sufferer, while others passed by regardless.
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker
Tokens of condolement mingled themselves with welcomes and felicitations.
From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
Touching this promotion, Bunce had nothing but condolement to offer to the new junior lord.
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
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 Walter Thornbury