condole
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin condolēre, the present active infinitive of condoleō (“to feel severe pain, suffer greatly; to suffer with or feel another’s pain, condole”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several things) + doleō (“to suffer physical pain, hurt; to be sorry, grieve for, deplore, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)).
Inflected forms:
form: condoles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: condoling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: condole
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: condole
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: condole
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: condolest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: condoledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: condoles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: condoleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: condole
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: condole
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: condole
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: condoling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: condoled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [A]n Ambaſſador ſent from a Prince, to congratulate, condole, or to aſſiſt at a ſolemnity, though the Authority be Publique, yet becauſe the buſineſſe is Private, and belonging to him in his naturall capacity; is a Private perſon.
[…] I doubt Madam, your complaints ought to be turned into acknovvledgments, and your Friends vvould have cauſe to rejoyce rather than condole vvith you; […]
The hero having heard of his friend's death, immediately repaired to his mistress, to condole with her, and comfort her.
She was of great use and comfort to us all, and lady Lucas has been very kind; she walked here on Wednesday morning to condole with us, and offered her services, or any of her daughters, if they could be of use to us.
[…] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
O Jesus! mirror of eternal love, remember […] the infinite depth of thy mercy, with which thou then condoledst with us lost and desperate sinners, and which thou displayedst to the thief on the cross, in saying, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise; […]
Since the Captain’s visit, she had received a letter from him, and also one from Mrs Mengan, his married sister, condoling with her on the loss of her baby, and expressing vaguely the hope that they should see her again at Quallingham.
A glance at Mr. Melvil's face has shown her how deeply he feels his present situation. Mr. Melvil condoles with them—condoles with Mr. Hilton about the loss of the money in the Bank's strong-room.
Little Nell condoled and condoled without difficulty. He laid words of gentle sympathy before them, and smothered his own misery behind the face of a reporter of the New York Eclipse.
― So sad to look at his face, Miss Douce condoled.
"You still look faint, my dear," condoled Mrs. Sylk. "It is the motion and smell of this hideous train. How it rocks! And though we keep the window closed I swear one can hardly breathe for the stench and the soot."
'There's always another time,' I condoled feebly.
gloss: To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Bott[om]. VVhat is Pyramus? a louer, or a tyrant? / Quin[ce]. A louer that kils himſelfe, moſt gallant, for loue. / Bott. That vvill aſke ſome teares in the true performing of it. If I doe it, let the Audience looke to their eyes: I vvil mooue ſtormes: I vvill condole, in ſome meaſure.
As vve congratulate their thus preventing perſecution according to Chriſts precept, ſo vve cannot but condole, that the ſame perſons vvere aftervvards poiſoned vvith hereticall opinions, contrary to the expreſs vvord of God, and became Apoſtate Nazarites.
gloss: To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament.
pos: verb
tags: formal
often
transitive
examples: Nay, compaſsion it ſelfe, comes to no great degree, if vvee haue not felt, in ſome proportion, in our ſelues, that vvhich vvee lament and condole in another.
God is Serious in hearing our Prayers, and delivering us from our dangers, and removing our troubles, and beſtovving his Mercies. VVhen vve are afflicted he is afflicted vvith us, […] He condoleth their miſery vvhen he is forced to chaſtiſe them: […]
[H]e began to retire himſelf to his Chamber to pray for, and pity them [his relations]; and alſo to condole his own miſery; he would alſo walk ſolitarily in the Fields, ſometimes reading, and ſometimes praying: and thus for ſome days he ſpent his time.
If Julia were then Married to Agrippa, vvhy ſhould our Poet make his Petition to Iſis, for her ſafe Delivery, and aftervvards, Condole her Miſcarriage; vvhich for ought he knevv might be by her ovvn Husband?
[W]hether it be natural to the Indians to be thus melancholy, or the effect of their Slavery, I am not certain: But I have alvvays been prone to believe, that they are then only condoling their misfortunes, the loſs of their Country and Liberties: […]
As ſoon as vve had fired, they ſet up the horrideſt Yell, or Hovvling, partly raiſed by thoſe that vvere vvounded, and partly by thoſe that pitied and condoled the Bodies they ſavv lye dead, that I never heard any thing like it before or ſince.
Permit me to condole thoſe misfortunes, vvhich have occaſioned ſo unhappy a difference betvveen you, and the reſt of your family: And to offer my aſſiſtance, to enable you to make the beſt of vvhat has happened.
Ramesh Chennithala, Leader of the Opposition, condoled the death of veteran film serial writer and writer Ravi Vallathol. […] In his condolence message, he said that like Gopinathan Nair [i.e., Bharat Gopy], he made a huge contribution to the culture.
gloss: To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue.
I not condole the dead, but thoſe vvho're living, / To vvhom the fear of death, gives cauſe of grieveing.
When in early days the sisters had gently condoled her upon her losses, they had been met with that majesty and stoicism of which Monsieur Papin had written. 'What will you ladies?' she had answered, shrugging her shoulders, 'it is Fate.'
If the Times is to be believed, Indian politicians like nothing better than a quick condole; and certainly barely a day passes without a picture of, say, the Chief Minister of Haryana condoling Mrs Parvati Chaudhuri over the death of Mr Devi Chaudhuri, the director-general of All-India Widgets. Indeed, condoling shows every sign of becoming a growth industry. If a businessman has died but it is not considered important enough to be condoled by the Chief Minister, it is becoming fashionable for his business colleagues to take out an illustrated advertisement and condole him themselves.
gloss: To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
reflexive
transitive
examples: [A]s for our tramontane lovers, when they begin their midnight complaint with, My lodging upon the cold ground is, we are not to understand them in the rigour of the letter; since it would be impossible for a British swain to condole himself long in that situation, without really dying for his mistress.
Related words: condolence
Derived words: condolation
condolatry
condoled chief
condolement
condolency
condoler
condoling
uncondoled
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