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Comforter   /kˈəmfərtər/   Listen
Comforter

noun
1.
Commiserates with someone who has had misfortune.  Synonyms: sympathiser, sympathizer.
2.
A person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies.  Synonyms: allayer, reliever.  "An allayer of fears"
3.
Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together.  Synonyms: comfort, puff, quilt.
4.
Device used for an infant to suck or bite on.  Synonyms: baby's dummy, pacifier, teething ring.



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"Comforter" Quotes from Famous Books



... brightened up. "That's so,—perhaps I shall," he said. "Why, Jack, you're almost as good a comforter as Nannie!" Then he took my hand as if he were going to shake hands, and holding it tight, went on with, "Now, Jack, I want you to promise me that you'll not speak about this attack of mine to anybody. As you say, I'll possibly—probably—be all over it in a few days, and there's ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus

... Life to our humanity which He assumed. And Christ's Life only then became available for men, capable of being imparted to each man, when it had passed through Death to Resurrection. If the grain die—only if it die first—"it bringeth forth much fruit." "If I go not away, the Comforter, the Paraclete, will not come unto you." Only by virtue of that "going away" of Christ, which includes His Death, Resurrection, and Ascension, could the Spirit which indwells His glorified manhood, come to impart the life of Christ to the members of the Body of Christ. Pentecost is ...
— Gloria Crucis - addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 • J. H. Beibitz

... play the man under affliction. Be with our friends; be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest: if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns to us, our Sun and Comforter, call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts—eager to labour—eager to be happy, if happiness shall be our portion; and if the day be marked for ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp

... I was encouraged in this by the trainman who said that the dear old thing commonly went through New Haven at breakfast time. But it was barely three o'clock when the porter plucked at me in my upper berth. He intruded, happily, on a dream in which the train came rocking across the comforter. ...
— Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks

... mean time Amine had kept up her courage and her spirits, proving to Philip a valuable adviser and a comforter in his misfortunes. "Cheer up, Philip," would she say; "we shall yet build our cottage under the shade of those cocoa-nut trees, and pass a portion, if not the remainder of our lives in peace; for who indeed is there who would think to find us in ...
— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat


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