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commiseratory en · ADJ

Etymology

From commiserator + -ory.

Meanings

1. Serving to commiserate; sympathetic.
   • Nevertheless, I wrote a long commiseratory letter to Carlo, who was sent for a rest to a nursing home run by nuns at Bellagio on the Lake of Como. 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly powers, →ISBN:
   • Comments were not always so flattering as to the enjoyment of "listening to music we have heard practiced for months before"; but whether mildly critical and self-commiseratory or flippantly satirical, the "circus bench season" never failed to bring forth its student editorial comment. 1942, Mary Watters, The History of Mary Baldwin College, 1842-1942, Mary Baldwin College:
   • Adolf Hitler in self-commiseratory mood once spoke darkly of dying and said he had chosen his successor. He thought a minor growth in his throat (later cleanly removed) was an incurable cancer. 1939, Douglas Reed, LIFE -- Göring 11 September 1939, Time Inc, →ISSN Invalid ISSN:

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