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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of condole.

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Examples

  • (the song that 'condoles'), and ends the lyric on as sonorous and romantic a word as even Shakespeare ever used.

    Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

  • President, PM, Cross-section of political, social, cultural organizations condoles demise of JKQueen | GroundReport

    President,PM,Cross-section of political,social,cultural organizations condoles demise of JKQueen 2009

  • To Middleton Murry, on the death of Katherine Mansfield, Eliot condoles and promises an assessment of her work in the Criterion.

    Was he anti-Semitic? 2009

  • President, PM, Cross-section of political, social, cultural organizations condoles demise of JKQueen by Vijay Kumar

    President,PM,Cross-section of political,social,cultural organizations condoles demise of JKQueen 2009

  • He seems at home everywhere; talks politics, guesses your needs, cracks a joke, or condoles with you on your misfortunes with an elongated face.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • For three or four days I remain at home, a very ill – looking subject, with a green shade over my eyes; and I should be very dull, but that Agnes is a sister to me, and condoles with me, and reads to me, and makes the time light and happy.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • [937] And he that knows not this is not armed to endure it, is not fit to live in this world (as one condoles our time), he knows not the condition of it, where with a reciprocalty, pleasure and pain are still united, and succeed one another in a ring.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [4903] Xenophiles, a philosopher, railed at women downright for many years together, scorned, hated, scoffed at them; coming at last into Daphnis a fair maid's company (as he condoles his mishap to his friend Demaritis), though free before,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tully, as I remember, in an epistle to his dear friend Atticus, much condoles the defect of such a friend.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Brother – Mr. Freeman condoles me on the Decline of my

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

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