Both Uses of
console
in
Persuasion
- Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted to receive him, while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the most consoling, that it would soon be over.†
Chpt 7 *
- They had been thrown together several weeks; they had been living in the same small family party: since Henrietta's coming away, they must have been depending almost entirely on each other, and Louisa, just recovering from illness, had been in an interesting state, and Captain Benwick was not inconsolable.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(console as in: console her grief) to comfort (emotionally)