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Comforter
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- 1 The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.
"In these words, with which the Gospel for this day commences, He speaks of the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, and of the Father, and of Himself"
- 1 A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
"Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine."
- 2 device used for an infant to suck or bite on wordnet
- 3 A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt. US
"A vast quilt or comforter was heaped beside the bed, in a broad puddle of congealed blood, thick and shiny on the patterned rugs."
- 4 bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together wordnet
- 5 A woollen scarf for winter. UK, dated
"[…] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up."
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- 6 a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies wordnet
- 7 A pacifier. Australia, New-Zealand
- 8 a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English comfortour et al, from Anglo-Norman confortour, from Old French conforter. See comfort.
A translation of the Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos, “comforter”), used in several verses of the New Testament.
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