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Comfort   /kˈəmfərt/   Listen
Comfort

noun
1.
A state of being relaxed and feeling no pain.  Synonym: comfortableness.  "She longed for the comfortableness of her armchair"
2.
A feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment.
3.
The act of consoling; giving relief in affliction.  Synonyms: consolation, solace.
4.
A freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state.  Synonym: ease.  "He had all the material comforts of this world"
5.
Satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing.  "A padded chair was one of the room's few comforts"
6.
Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together.  Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt.
7.
Assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal.
verb
(past & past part. comforted; pres. part. comforting)
1.
Give moral or emotional strength to.  Synonyms: console, solace, soothe.
2.
Lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate.  Synonym: ease.



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"Comfort" Quotes from Famous Books



... to take, leaving the guitar behind him altogether. His faith protested a little, but the other self invented a quibble, the mockery that he had already "come by Tucson," according to his literal word; and this device answered. It is a comfort to be divided no longer against one's self. Genesmere was at ease in his thraldom to the demon with whom he had wrestled through the dark hours. As the day brightened he wondered how he had come ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... call them, were to be sore trials to Rosalind. One came in the fourth week of their honeymoon, and quite spoiled for her the last three days of her holiday. However, Fenwick himself laughed about it—that was one comfort. ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... was very frank about himself, finding no doubt a profound comfort in human companionship after those long hours of ghastly communion ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... I will bring it to pass. Let nothing astonish you: all that is happening between us to-day is natural. You will go hence because it is right that you should go; and you will go of your own free will. It is not so much my heart which will bring you comfort; it is rather your heart which will open. I shall find in you all the good that you will receive ...
— The Choice of Life • Georgette Leblanc
... excitement of the moment could think of nothing but Saunders. Whenever I was slow in finding a handhold or foothold, there would come a stentorian instruction to Saunders to feel to the right or the left, or higher up or lower down. And I remember that I found it a great comfort to know that it was not I who was so slow, but that fellow Saunders. I seemed to see him as a laborious, futile person who would have been better employed at home looking after his hens. And so in these articles, I seem again to be impersonating ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)


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