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Comforter   /kˈəmfərtər/   Listen
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Comforter  n.  
1.
One who administers comfort or consolation. "Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine."
2.
(Script.) The Holy Spirit, referring to his office of comforting believers. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things."
3.
A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. (U. S.) "The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight."
4.
A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. (U. S.)
Job's comforter, a boil. (Colloq.)






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"Comforter" Quotes from Famous Books



... all-sustaining power, this paternal friend, and comforter, and after months of patient searching she gave ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott

... would have the goodness to permit me the presence of the only comforter that my afflicted, my half-broken heart, could be raised by. But I charge you, think not of coming up without her indulgent permission. I am too ill at present, my dear, to think of combating with this dreadful man; and of flying from this horrid house!— My bad writing ...
— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson

... sanctifying, and receiving to glory, his people;—the Holy Ghost is exhibited as given to the Redeemer, as renewing, illuminating, sanctifying, and comforting his elect, as a Spirit of grace and supplication, as dwelling in their hearts, as given to them as an earnest of the purchased possession, as the Comforter, the Remembrancer, the Spirit of promise;—and the Redeemer is presented as the great Mediator between God and men. To the faith of God's elect, such manifestations are made. ...
— The Ordinance of Covenanting • John Cunningham

... Tommy his patron, and Daisy the comforter of all his woes; for, though the children were younger than he, his timid spirit found a pleasure in their innocent society, and rather shrunk from the rough sports of the elder lads. Mr. Laurence did not forget him, but sent clothes and books, music and kind messages, ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... our Lord Jesus Christ,—May the grace and unmerited mercy of our Divine Saviour be our single and only hope in our pilgrimage here below. I beseech you and your dear friends to pray for us, that the celestial Comforter promised in the Scriptures, would vouchsafe to visit our hearts and warm them with his love; for without the aid of this Divine Light, even though we should commit to memory the Old and New Testament, it would avail us nothing; but ...
— The Village in the Mountains; Conversion of Peter Bayssiere; and History of a Bible • Anonymous


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