verb
definition
To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.
noun
definition
The act by which somebody is consoled.
Examples of consoling in a Sentence
If a man could be more consoling, I've not met him.
Cynthia spoke in a consoling tone as both women rose.
Berg was sitting beside the countess consoling her with the respectful attention of a relative.
Alexius was evidently consoling himself with the reflexion that the future belonged to him.
Distracting him with other duties, like consoling the mother or corralling children, may steal precious shots.
Her persevering and patient love seemed completely to surround the countess every moment, not explaining or consoling, but recalling her to life.
She's consoling Howie, for the most part.
Jacopo Niccolini, one of a religious fraternity dedicated to consoling the last hours of condemned men, remained with him.
It is humiliating to human strength and consoling to human weakness to find the Titan behaving like the least resolute of mortals, seeking refuge in temporizing, in evasion, in fortuitious circumstance.
In matters of the heart, if any consoling or any disturbing passion played a great part in his life, we do not know it; we know only (apart from a few passing shadows cast by calumny and envy) of affectionate and dignified relations with friends, patrons and pupils, of public and private regard mixed in the days of his youth with dazzled admiration, and in those of his age with something of reverential awe.