condole
verb (used without object)
to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief (usually followed bywith ).
will condole
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future tenseof condole.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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There are persons, their name is Legion, who are as wanton in offence as Bondo Emmins,—whose souls are black with murderous records of hopes they have destroyed; yet they will condole with the mourners!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various
Tisdall is a pretty fellow, as you say; and when I come back to Ireland with nothing, he will condole with me with abundance of secret pleasure.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
Eghtenyontatitenranyon, they will condole with one another, or, there will be mutual condolence.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
I am less out of humour than you would imagine: and if it were not that impertinent people will condole with me, as they used to give me joy, I would value it less.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
That will ask some tears in the true performing of it: If I do it let the audience look to their eyes; I will move storms; I will condole in some measure.
From A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
