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Comforts

noun

1.

Things that make you comfortable and at ease. Synonyms: amenities, conveniences, creature comforts.

Comfort

noun

1.

A state of being relaxed and feeling no pain. Synonym: comfortableness. "She longed for the comfortableness of her armchair"

2.

A feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment.

3.

The act of consoling; giving relief in affliction. Synonyms: consolation, solace.

4.

A freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state. Synonym: ease. "He had all the material comforts of this world"

5.

Satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing. "A padded chair was one of the room's few comforts"

6.

Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together. Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt.

7.

Assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal.

verb

(past & past part. comforted; pres. part. comforting)

1.

Give moral or emotional strength to. Synonyms: console, solace, soothe.

2.

Lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate. Synonym: ease.

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"Comforts" Quotes from Famous Books

... himself on another sea of productions. The most important was Gillette's "All the Comforts of Home," which he put on at Proctor's Twenty-third Street Theater. Frohman had just acquired the lease of this theater. Already a big idea was simmering in his mind, and the leasehold was essential to its consummation. On May 8, ...

— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... hesitation in pronouncing it to be the only inn which could enter into any reasonable comparison with any of the respectable taverns either of England or America. In no country but in America and England, have they any idea of that first of comforts to the wearied traveller, a clean and housewife-like bed. I speak from woeful experience, when I advise every traveller to consider a pair of sheets and a counterpane as necessary a part of his luggage as a change ...

— Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 • Lt-Col. Pinkney

... a gentleman called on his way to business. He wished Johnny's mother to come to his home to take charge of his two motherless boys. She immediately accepted the offer. They were thus provided with all the comforts of a good home. Johnny is a man now, but he has never forgotten the time when he prayed so earnestly for his ...

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... first threw themselves into the breach, and resolved that, if the British ministry would adopt such measures as the stamp act, their execution should be resisted and become difficult, and if such measures were passed as the act taxing tea, coffee, and the comforts of life, that the tea should never be landed, and thus prove a loss to its owners. The men who threw the tea into Boston harbor were patriots united by a sense that union was necessary for the salvation of liberty; and they were attracted to each other ...

— The Yankee Tea-party - Or, Boston in 1773 • Henry C. Watson

... refresh'd. To me thou com'st, as if to him should come A perry[531] from the north, whose frosty breath Might fan him coolness in that doubt[532] of death. With me then meet'st, as he a spring might meet, Cooling the earth under his toil-parch'd feet, Whose crystal moisture, in his helmet ta'en, Comforts his spirits, makes him ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various

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