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- verb Present participle of
condole .
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Examples
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AS Myrtano was going on in condoling the Misery this unhappy Gentleman had endur'd, Idalia, not a little amaz'd to hear that the unknown Person, to whom she was so much oblig'd, was Honorius, had the greatest Impatience imaginable to know the End of this Adventure; and that he might the sooner come to a Conclusion, desired he would wave all the Particulars in what Manner she had been preserv'd, and come to those of which she yet was ignorant.
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Senior leaders from the Pakistan Muslim League-N party avoided the Lahore funeral, perhaps mindful of a decree by Barelvi mullahs that those condoling with Taseer also risked death.
A divided Pakistan buries Salmaan Taseer and a liberal dream 2011
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But they joined in with the everyday rituals of life, condoling the bereaved, celebrating weddings and births.
Osama bin Laden's last hours come into focus as White House revises its story 2011
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A contribution such as: "I didn't know you but I have herd your story" now counts, for some reason, as worth having, along with the recommendation of a thumbs-up sign beneath the stranger's condoling, confirming that X or Y "likes this".
Cyber bullies are vile, but should we be locking them up? | Catherine Bennett 2011
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J&K State Academy while condoling the sad demise of Gh. Ali Majboor said that he was a legendry figure among folk artists of Kashmir.
Prominent Kashmiri folk Artist & humourist GA Majboor passed away in Budgam 2009
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That time too several precious lives were lost but nothing more than condoling the deaths and expressing shocks and grief were done by government and any authority.
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► Govt condoling, expressing grief over deaths not enough
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With such condoling expressions he got the crest-fallen falconer to his bed, and then retired to his own pallet, where it was some time ere he could fall asleep.
The Abbot 2008
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Presently the pillage of his pleasure-house was noised abroad among the folk, and they came to him from all sides and places, some exulting in his misfortune and others excusing him and condoling with his sorrow; whilst he bewailed himself to them and for grief neither ate meat nor drank drink.
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When the Caliph had made an end of condoling with him, he charged him not to absent himself from the Divan and returned to his palace.
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