condoling

English

Verb

condoling

1. present participle and gerund of condole

Noun

condoling (countable and uncountable, plural condolings)

1. Condolence.
   • 1845, Charles James Lever, Nuts and Nutcrackers, page 172:

     What admonitions would it not pour forth, what warnings, what commiseration, and what condolings.

Adjective

condoling (comparative more condoling, superlative most condoling)

1. Expressing condolence; sympathetic.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     This is Ercles’ vein, a tyrant’s vein; a lover is more condoling.

   • 1676, Roger Boyle, Parthenissa‎^[1], Part 1, Book 4, p. 177:

     […] having put the Ashes in a Silver Urn, and on it a Crown of Gold, he sent it in great state, with a condoling Letter, to the young Marcellus […]

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 4:

     Why then dost treat me with Rebukes, instead
     Of kind condoling Cares and friendly Sorrow?

   • 1917, Edna Ferber, chapter 1, in Fanny Herself‎^[2], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 7:

     The Brandeis house was besieged by condoling callers.

   • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 6, in Small Island‎^[3], London: Review, page 96:

     I was just about to say something nice to Celia, I forget what but something condoling, when she lifted her face to me.

Derived terms

• condolingly