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reconsole en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + console.

Meanings

1. To console again.
   • The vexation he showed at having caused such a disappointment, struck me as amiably characteristic — and in the course of the evening he every now and then threw out some word of admiration to reconsole mamma." 1848, Walter Scott, Narrative of the Life, 1, page 340:
   • Since this much will feed from 4 to 6. and you're apt to have leftovers, you can keep it to reheat and reconsole yourself with the next evening. 1971, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, page 75:
   • The Perfects increasingly emphasized obedience and hierarchy, and developed a ritual to reconsole those among them who had fallen from the pure way. 1989, Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Macmillan Reference USA, →ISBN, page 185:

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