Word of the Day:
condole
What It Means
Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.
To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament.
She condoled with her father over the death of his mother.
Condole in Context
“[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...”
Did You Know?
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”)).
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