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
Tokens of condolement mingled themselves with welcomes and felicitations.
From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
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 George Gissing
Touching this promotion, Bunce had nothing but condolement to offer to the new junior lord.
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
But to persèver In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
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