• Comforting

    Full definition of comforting

    Adjective

    comforting

    1. Giving comfort.Your comforting words help ease my mind.It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

    Verb

    comforting
    1. Present participle of comfort

    Noun

    comforting

    (plural comfortings)
    1. The act of giving comfort.
      • 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea...
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