Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.
Your comforting words help ease my mind.
present participle and gerund of comfort
The act of giving comfort.
Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]
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