condolement

It is easy enough to get more or less than the truth regarding our failings, and friends often fret and spoil each other by a mutual retail of compliments and scandals which they make a business of collecting to be used in congratulation or condolement.

Some of the men crowded about curiously, throwing careless jokes of condolement at the sufferer, while others passed by regardless.

Tis sweete and commendable in your nature Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father But you must knowe your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his, and the surviver bound In filliall obligation for some tearme To do obsequious sorrowe, but to persever In obstinate condolement, is a course Of impious stubbornes ... etc.

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.

Where found condolement in thy load of grief?