condolement

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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 Parker, Frances

Tokens of condolement mingled themselves with welcomes and felicitations.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

Where found condolement in thy load of grief?

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

But to persèver In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

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