recomforting

Verb

recomfort (third-person singular simple present recomforts, present participle recomforting, simple past and past participle recomforted)

1. (archaic, transitive) To console (someone); to comfort, look after.
   • With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII
2. (archaic, transitive) To inspire with new courage; to encourage.
3. (archaic, transitive) To reinvigorate, to strengthen.
   • And therefore it is an experiment , though vulgar in strawberries , yet not brought into use generally : for it is usual to help the ground with muck , and likewise to recomfort it sometimes with muck put to the roots1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “V. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...