ppl. a. [f. CONSOLE v. + -ING2.] That consoles, comforting.

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a. 1704.  T. Brown, Praise Drunkenness, Wks. (1730), I. 33. Noah … passed away the melancholly hours of confinement … with a consoling bottle.

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1797.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, i. Ellena … was patient to her infirmities, and consoling to her suffering.

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  Hence Consolingly adv.

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1880.  ‘Ouida,’ Moths, II. 70. ‘People forget nowadays; I don’t think they revenge,’ said Lady Stoat consolingly.

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1887.  Hall Caine, Son of Hagar, Prol. 16. The old woman stroked her consolingly.

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