Definition for CON-DOLE'

CON-DOLE', v.i. [L. condoleo; con, with, and doleo, to ache, or to grieve.]

To feel pain, or to grieve, at the distress or misfortunes of another. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. It is followed by with before the person for whom we feel grief.

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