reconsole

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ console

Verb[edit]

reconsole (third-person singular simple present reconsoles, present participle reconsoling, simple past and past participle reconsoled)

  1. To console again.
    • 1848, Walter Scott, Narrative of the Life, 1, page 340:
      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."
    • 1971, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, page 75:
      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.
    • 1989, Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Macmillan Reference USA, →ISBN, page 185:
      The Perfects increasingly emphasized obedience and hierarchy, and developed a ritual to reconsole those among them who had fallen from the pure way.