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condole

con·dole

UK/kənˈdəʊl/ US/kənˈdoʊl/ uncommon formal obsolete

verb

1.

express one''s sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone''s death

  • “You must condole the widow”

Origin

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”)).

Phrases

  • condoled chief

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