condole
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condole
- /kənˈdəʊl/ UK
- /kənˈdoʊl/ US
Rhymes with -əʊl
Where it comes from
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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”)).
verb condoles · condoling · condoled · condole
- Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone. She condoled with her father over the death of his mother.
- To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament. 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.
- To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament. 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.
- To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone). Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue.
- To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn. [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 mistr
