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Definitions for comforting
com·fort·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word comforting.
Princeton's WordNet
comforting, cheering, satisfyingadjective
providing freedom from worry
comforting, consolatory, consolingadjective
affording comfort or solace
Wiktionary
comfortingadjective
Giving comfort.
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comforting
Comforting refers to the act of providing emotional support, consolation, or relief to someone who is experiencing distress, anxiety, pain, or grief. It involves offering kindness, encouragement, sympathy or words and actions that help to alleviate one's feelings of sorrow or distress.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of comforting in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of comforting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of comforting in a Sentence
It's very comforting because if we are developing guidelines, it means that we have recognized them.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
For this Navy to bar a chaplain from comforting and ministering to sailors and families is a reprehensible violation of religious freedom and common human decency.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
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