All 3 Uses of
condolence
in
The Remains of the Day
- Dr Meredith rose and said: "My condolences, Stevens.†
Chpt 2m -condolences = expression of sympathy
- I made my exit, and "it was not until after I had done so that it occurred to me I had not actually offered her my condolences.†
Chpt 3e -
- It occurs to me that elsewhere in attempting to gather such recollections, I may well have asserted that this memory derived from the minutes immediately after Miss Kenton's receiving news of her aunt's death; that is to say, the occasion when, having left her to be alone with her grief, I realized out in the corridor that I had not offered her my condolences.†
Chpt 4a - *
Definition:
an expression of sympathy to another who is in sorrow -- typically in grief over a death in the family