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Synonyms for console

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for console

to give hope to in time of grief or pain

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Synonyms for console

a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall

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a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system)

an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture)

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housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television

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It is therefore noteworthy that he recommended, albeit in abbreviated form, consolatory tactics that resemble those proffered by Marcello's consolers not many years later: the bereaved should remember that if his daughter were still alive she might have been subjected to much misery and pain, from which death in fact had saved her.
TOKYO -- When President Barack Obama arrives in South Korea on Friday, he will be thrust anew into the role of consoler in chief in a time of crisis, a responsibility he has become all too accustomed to in the United States.
Toi qui, pour consoler l'homme frele qui souffre, /Nous appris a meler le salpetre et le soufre, / O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
Se rendant sur place jeudi dernier avec son epouse, le president Obama a cherche a consoler la ville endeuillee et s'est rendu au chevet des blesses a l'hopital.
Aussi, cinq jours apres le grand tremblement de terre du 11 mars 2011, l'empereur a transmis un message au peuple japonais, en souhaitant que ce dernier << travaille ensemble et s'unisse pour se consoler les uns les autres afin de surmonter cette periode douloureuse (5) >>.
Hilda's care from infancy, she became "one of the most influential women of her time." She reconciled long-standing feuds between bishops and archbishops and, according to historian Sabine Baring-Gould, "all the Northumbrians regarded her as the consoler and best counselor of the kingdom."
Despite this sisterly attachment, Anna's role as consoler allows her to remain detached from Bianca Maria.
Some of the most moving and intimate of Rubin's evocations of Marian culture are the personal encounters of celibate men and women with Mary: the freedom with which 12th-century Cistercians contemplated her as their special protector, consoler and guide, so that Bernard of Clairvaux through his reflections on the Song of Songs could envision his prayer in terms of suckling at her breast; or 13th-century nuns sharing their visions of Mary visiting them with her baby son and giving him to them to be cuddled, kissed and held.
It takes two of William Burges's churches--St Mary, Studley Royal and Christ the Consoler, Newby Hall, Skelton-on-Ure--to extract the phrase: 'almost unbearably beautiful' from him.
During his time in that position, Ron has been a supporter, a consoler, an advocate, and a bridge-builder--both for the organization, for the individual facilities that are members of the organization, and when necessary to those of us who led those facilities.
The old songwriting schizophrenia lingers in Zeppelinesque opener Consoler Of The Lonely and bottleneck bluesy Hold Up, a distant relative of Nashville Teens' Tobacco Road.