condoling

condoling

1. present participle of condole

condoling (countable and uncountable, plural condolings)

1. Condolence.
   • 1845, Charles James Lever, Nuts and Nutcrackers, page 172:

     What admonitions would it not pour forth, what warnings, what commiseration, and what condolings.

condoling (comparative more condoling, superlative most condoling)

1. Expressing condolence; sympathetic.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Scene 2,

     This is Ercles’ vein, a tyrant’s vein; a lover is more condoling.

   • 1676, Roger Boyle, Parthenissa, Part 1, Book 4, p. 177,

     […] having put the Ashes in a Silver Urn, and on it a Crown of Gold, he sent it in great state, with a condoling Letter, to the young Marcellus […]

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 4,

     Why then dost treat me with Rebukes, instead

     Of kind condoling Cares and friendly Sorrow?

   • 1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter One, p. 7,

     The Brandeis house was besieged by condoling callers.

   • 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Six, p. 96,

     I was just about to say something nice to Celia, I forget what but something condoling, when she lifted her face to me.