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Definition of Condole

Compulsion
Compulsion
  CONDOLE   verb, intransitive
To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
 

Devil's Dictionarydefinition from:
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Confidant,-confidante
Confidant,-confidante
Regular definition:
CONDOLE:
k?n?d?ul v.intr. (foll. by with) express sympathy with a person over a loss, grief, etc. °Often confused with console. [LL condolere (as com-, dolere suffer)]


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