Word Meanings - CONDOLEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton. 2. Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. Shak.

Related words: (words related to CONDOLEMENT)

• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• PITIFUL
  1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11. 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser. 3. To be
• MOURNING
  1. The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow. 2. Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning
• SORROWLESS
  Free from sorrow.
• MOURNINGLY
  In a mourning manner.
• CONDOLENCE
  Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief. Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• MOURN
  1. To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. xxiii. 2. 2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner. We mourn in
• MOURNER
  1. One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. Byron. 2. One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange.
• MOURNE
  The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached. Sir P. Sidney.
• MOURNIVAL
  See MURNIVAL
• LAMENTATION
  1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii.
• CONDOLEMENT
  1. Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton. 2. Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. Shak.
• OVERSORROW
  To grieve or afflict to excess. Milton.
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• UNSORROWED
  Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.
• BEMOURN
  To mourn over. Wyclif.