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/kˈaʊnsəlɪŋ/ /kˈaʊnslɪŋ/ Listen

noun

counseling n. Direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.

Synonyms: guidance, counsel, direction.

verb

Counsel v. t. (past & past part. counseled or counselled; pres. part. counseling or counselling)

To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. "Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place."

To advise or recommend, as an act or course. "They who counsel war." "Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth."

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Etymology of 'Counseling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

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— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen

... to her what she was to do for the patient and then gave her something to offset the effects of her own nervous shock. Then counseling them not to worry too much, for there would be no fatal result if his directions were followed, the physician mounted his horse and rode back to town. Such journeys were all in the day's work to him, ...

— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony

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