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Condole

//kənˈdəʊl// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone. intransitive

    "[A]n Ambaſſador ſent from a Prince, to congratulate, condole, or to aſſiſt at a ſolemnity, though the Authority be Publique, yet becauſe the buſineſſe is Private, and belonging to him in his naturall capacity; is a Private perſon."

  2. 2
    express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death wordnet
  3. 3
    To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament. intransitive, obsolete

    "Bott[om]. VVhat is Pyramus? a louer, or a tyrant? / Quin[ce]. A louer that kils himſelfe, moſt gallant, for loue. / Bott. That vvill aſke ſome teares in the true performing of it. If I doe it, let the Audience looke to their eyes: I vvil mooue ſtormes: I vvill condole, in ſome meaſure."

  4. 4
    To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament. formal, often, transitive

    "Nay, compaſsion it ſelfe, comes to no great degree, if vvee haue not felt, in ſome proportion, in our ſelues, that vvhich vvee lament and condole in another."

  5. 5
    To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone). obsolete, transitive

    "Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue."

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  1. 6
    To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn. obsolete, reflexive, transitive

    "[A]s for our tramontane lovers, when they begin their midnight complaint with, My lodging upon the cold ground is, we are not to understand them in the rigour of the letter; since it would be impossible for a British swain to condole himself long in that situation, without really dying for his mistress."

Etymology

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”)).

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