Both Uses of
console
in
Love Medicine
- My daughter, she consoled me.†
p. 68.8consoled = comforted (emotionally)
- For I grasped her hand like a common consoling friend and felt, immediately, the grim forbidding strength of her, undiminished all these years.†
p. 148.8 *consoling = comforting (emotionally)
Definitions:
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(1)
(console as in: console her grief) to comfort (emotionally)
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(2)
(console as in: plug it into the console) controls or video monitor(s) for electrical equipment; or a cabinet made to hold electronic equipment
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, console can refer to a storage compartment between the bucket seats of a car.