[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The expressing of sympathetic grief.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. N. T., IV. xxxii. That all … bear their part in these publique condolings.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 73. All which moved him to such condolings that … he beseeches them to leave off wounding him.
