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comfortings

comfortings is the plural of comforting.

Meaning of comforting

Noun

comforting (plural comfortings)

  1. The act of giving comfort.
    • Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269

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Questions about comfortings

What is comfortings the plural of?
Comfortings is the plural of comforting.

Words near comfortings in the dictionary

  1. comfortful
  2. comfortin'
  3. comforting
  4. comfortingly
  5. comfortingness
  6. comfortings
  7. comfortization
  8. comfortize
  9. comfortized
  10. comfortizes
  11. comfortizing

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