recomfort
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Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman reconforter, Middle French reconforter, from re- + conforter.
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Verb edit
recomfort (third-person singular simple present recomforts, present participle recomforting, simple past and past participle recomforted)
- (transitive, now rare) To console (someone); to comfort, look after.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:
- With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd and made good chere
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- (transitive, now rare) To inspire with new courage; to encourage.
- (transitive, now rare) To reinvigorate, to strengthen.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “V. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- And therefore it is an experiment , though vulgar in strawberries , yet not brought into use generally : for it is usual to help the ground with muck , and likewise to recomfort it sometimes with muck put to the roots