comfort
verb (used with object)
to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to.
uncomforted
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a word derived from
comfort.
Example Sentences
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Can it be for Thy glory that I should go away uncomforted!
From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Matilda of Magdeburg
Strange is the seaman’s heart; he hopes, he fears; Draws closer and sweeps wider from that coast; Last, his rent sail refits, and to the deep His shattered prow uncomforted puts back.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Behind no prison-grate, she said, Which slurs the sunshine half-a-mile, Live captives so uncomforted As souls behind a smile.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
Thus the unfortunate youth in question was sighing forth his sufferings in uncomforted helplessness.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
If old, they are doomed to pass their solitary years uncomforted, and unsupported.
From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison
